St Thomas's Hospital:
Minutes of the Court of Governors
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7th July 1736 - 12th May 1784

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After some Debate They were unanimously of Opinion
That the number of Stated Physicians to this Hospital
should for the future be Four. And several Regulations
having been proposed relating to the Times and Method
of the Physicians Attending at the Hospital, (wherein
the Opinions of Sr: Edward Wilmott< no role > , Dr: Letherland, and
Dr: Reeve late Physicians to this Hospital were taken)
The following Regulations were Unanimously Agreed
to, at a Committee held the 25 day of March last, Vizt:

1st: That the three Senior Physicians shall meet
in the Doctors Room on Tuesday morning where such Patients
as are able and fit to attend on them shall come form all
the Wards: And afterwards They shall Visit in their
respective Wards such Patients as are not able and fit
to attend Them in the Doctors-Room

2d. That the three Senior Physicians, with the
three Surgeons in their turns, attend on Thursday morning
to take in the Patients, and take upon them the care of them;
and that one of them attend on the same day to write for
the Out-Patients then admitted.

3d. That on Saturday the three Senior Physi
-cians, and the three Surgeons, shall Walk, through all the
Wards together, and then and there jointly Consider and
Consult of an concerning such whose Cases are Extraordi-
-nary and difficult, whether Doctors or Surgeons Patients, and
prescribe and direct such Administrations or Operations as
shall be by them or the Major part of them thought fit.

4th. That the Junior Physician attend the Hospi-
-tal every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, on Monday
he is to walk through all the Wards; on Wednesday to call
over and prescribe for the men Out Patients; on Friday for the
Women and Children Out Patients, and to Visit any of the
Patients in the House, whom it may be necessary to see

5th. That in case any of the three Senior Physicians
are prevented from attending the Junior Physician shall
attend in their room And in case the Junior Physician should
be prevented from coming, the other shall do his Duty by
Relation.




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