Not indexed. Includes the following: names of visiting chaplains; letter from M[atthew] Digby Wyatt, 26 Jan 1864, concerning the rebuilding of the hospital (clipped to front page of volume).
3 Oct 1864 Pensions for Nurses recommended by Medical Staff included: £12pa to Nurse Bowtell (Sarah Lindsell) on discharge and £10pa to Nurse Mary (Fanny Mortimer). Agreed these to be paid quarterly
25 Jan 1865 names 33 patients given small sums by Matron (Miss Bishop) out of the Samaritan Fund (p44). Matron’s float reimbursed £10 7s 5d.
8 Feb 1865 Letters from James Davis ‘clockmaker’ offers to repair and keep in good order the clock for the new building free of charge as his contribution to the Building Committee. (Another example of gifts of free labour was the laying out of the ground/garden when building finished letter from William Cummings, 26 Dec 1864).
26 Jun 1865 Dr Humphry brought before the Governors the subject of a better class of Nurses in the Hospital’, (to be over 40years of age)
2 Oct 1865 The Medical Officers (subject to approval of Governors) have engaged 4 nurses of a Superior kind trained at St Thomas’ Hospital under the regulations of the Nightingale Fund’
21 Dec 1865 ‘resolved that one of the principal female ward to be named Hatton Ward after Miss E X Hatton who in 1846 established the Building Fund by a donation of £1200’ (p178)
28 Dec 1865 Digby Wyatt’s report on difficulties in new building and suggestions as to how to remedy them in particular improvements to laundry and fever wards (pp186-193)
10 Jan 1866 A book called the Visitors Book be procured and kept in the Porter’s Room for Visiting clergy and lay visitors to enter names and make remarks.
24 Jan 1866 Matron paid £9 7s 3d from Samaritan Fund 15 named patients and article of clothing (p210)
Date? Duties of Resident Porter and non-resident Porter and Gardener plus amendments/comments in pencil see rule 2 re distribution of beer for patients, sisters and nurses. (pp218-9)
28 May 1866 ‘William Emmons a patient in Griffith Ward was called before the Board and reprimanded for having beer brought into the hospital for him.’
25 Jun 1866 ‘resolved that a petition be presented to Parliament praying that Addenbrooke’s Hospital and all hospital established for the treatment of sick poor maybe exempted from Parish Rates.’ (pp320-1)
27 Sep 1866 Final report of New building Committee congratulations to Governors’ ‘on completion of the works and possession of the building for novelty and beauty of elevations and convenience of internal arrangements equal to any provincial Hospital in the Kingdom’. And report on burst pipes follows. (pp355-360)
Date? Following alarm at rising costs of metered water, the Manager of the Waterworks Co. Suggests ‘waste preventing cisterns’ be installed for all WC’s (p397) See also p436 onwards for recommends cisterns operated by pull handles.
9 Jan 1867 Agents of the Duke of Rutland had recommended admission of Eliza and Mary Ann Jeffery of Woodditton who being ‘incurable‘ should (under the rules) not have been admitted, but the Medical Staff did not feel justified under the circumstance of sending them home again.