Indexed at front. Includes reports of various committees, including Improvement of Funds Committee, Provision and Bill Committee, Financial Committee, Building Committee etc. Also minutes of the Advisory Council and, pasted in between pp. 103 and 104, printed proof copy of a report by the Advisory Council re various matters including income and expenditure, the operating theatre and an outbreak of diphtheria in Cambridge - no date, but presumed to be Dec. 1900. Also, pasted in between pp. 149 and 150, printed report of the Gas Committee to the Weekly Board 28 Jan. 1901; and pasted in between pp. 297 and 298, printed report re Proposed Nurses' Pension Scheme - no date but presumed to be ca. June 1901.
17 Sep 1900 For the purpose of raising subscriptions the County is to be divided into Petty Sessional Districts. The Superintendent was requested to write to various ladies in the County asking them to become representative of the Council in their District and to join their committees.
19 Oct 1900 Hours of laundry women to be 7am-6pm with 1½ hours for meals (p155)
23 Nov 1900 Nurses Pension Scheme Also 27 Dec (pp103-4)
26 Dec 1900 Mr Sedley Taylor (road off Long Road named after him) agrees to fund alterations to provide colonnade for women similar to that recently provided on the other side for men.
31 Dec 1900 Rev Austen Leigh (King’s College) nominated as University member of Advisory Council
9 Jan 1901 Report from Engineer and Manager of University and Town Gas Light Co. in response to complaint from hospital.
11 Jan 1901 Report form Cambridge Electric Supply co advocating wiring all the hospital with electricity.
23 Jan 1901 Sorrow recorded at the death of Queen Victoria
28 Jan 1901 Printed report of hospitals Gas committee to the board favours electric lighting (pp149-50)
20 Jan 1901 Laurence Humphry (President of Cambridge Medical Society) thanks the board for agreeing to the Society holding its meetings in the hospital on payment of 1s a year.
6 Feb 1901 Recommended that laundry women be allowed to work as extra hour per day ‘at an extra wage of 3d per day each’
15 Feb 1901 Efficiency of heating and hot water apparatuses to be investigated (Hot Water Committee)
6 Mar 1901 Miss Cureton (Matron) writes to Board re ‘Falling off in numbers of applicants for nurse training’. Fees to high and should be reduced
10 Apr 1901 Mr & Mrs Parker will donate £100 towards installation of electricity provided each bed on wards can be supplied with separate lights
23 Apr 1901 Agreed a fortnightly fire drill supervised by Fire Brigade officers
23 Apr 1910 Advice re isolation of patients and of nurses caring for them from Lloyd Jones (See also 11 May 1901)
4 May 1901 Probationers Committee recommends fees be reduced.
29 May 1901 Letter of complaint from a life governor that a patient recommend by him (George Parker) was refused admission because an ;old form’ had been used.
3 Jul 1901 Miss Cureton resigns
9 Jul 1901 Numbers of inpatients and out patients have doubled since 1880
14 Aug 1901 Clifford Allbutt complains that the apartment he used for giving lectures has been given to Matron
23 Aug 1901 Paget Ward assigned to the Physicians as a lecture room
10 Sep 1901 Miss Margaret Morgan appointee Matron with a salary of £90 pa and uniform
17 Sep 1901 Estimate of Electric Light to be accepted at a cost of £524
27 Sep 1901 An epidemic of Diphtheria in the Borough which began in October 1900 has caused a great strain on the hospital resources. 59 cases admitted to the hospital fever wards. (see also p425)
26 Sep 1901 56 patients have been transferred from the hospital to the Convalescent Home in Dovercourt (p392)
23 Oct 1901 Letter from Hobson’s Conduit Trust asking under what authority is water ‘tapped’ from the Conduit for use by the hospital
29 Oct 1901 Public Health Committee offers £125 to recompense the hospital l for help in admission during ht diphtheria epidemic.
8 Nov 1901 Report on use of Hobson’s conduit water and its history including use for the new steam laundry. Committee looking into complaint concludes that the failure of the water at the fountain in Market Place was due to obstruction not the action of the hospital.