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Excerpt from An Anecdotal History of Old Times in Singapore, Vol. 2 of 2
Notwithstanding the frequent urgent representations by those who were in charge, the then Government took no steps to alter or improve its condition. In fact, the time were bad, for the Transfer was being agitated. The Government of India did not care to interest themselves in this question, but left it for the new Government to settle; and even when the transfer took place, the first Governor was nu popular, and the expenditure incurred for Imperial purposes was too large to allow the question of comfort and better accommodation for paupers to be considered. Dr Randell was the first to take the bull by the horns. He was at that time Acting Assistant Colonial Surgeon, and finding no hopes of anything likely to be done to improve the hospital, he took it upon himself to calculate what number could be kept there with the likelihood of deriving benefit by treatment, allotting what he considered the least safe superficial space for eacli patient. Then, keeping those who were most in need of treatment, he turned all the others out, and further admissions were regulated, either by the urgency of the case, or by vacancies in the wards.
The large number of mendicants thus thrown on the public, forced the Government to take the first steps toward increasing the accommoda tion, and the erection of a ward outside the hospital enclosure was decided on. Commission after commission was nominated to consider what was to be done, and a poor rate was preposed, as the Poor Fund was gradually disappearing.
As times became better, and the revenues increased, ward after ward was put up, and Mr. Tan Beng Swee built a tile-roofed ward at his own expense; eventually the Government granted votes for the maintenance of the hospital on a more liberal basis. Afterwards under the careful management of Dr. Rowell, it became a well organised hospital and a pride to the Settlement. The whole place was a model of a poor-house and Infirmary combined.
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Notwithstanding the frequent urgent representations by those who were in charge, the then Government took no steps to alter or improve its condition. In fact, the time were bad, for the Transfer was being agitated. The Government of India did not care to interest themselves in this question, but left it for the new Government to settle; and even when the transfer took place, the first Governor was nu popular, and the expenditure incurred for Imperial purposes was too large to allow the question of comfort and better accommodation for paupers to be considered. Dr Randell was the first to take the bull by the horns. He was at that time Acting Assistant Colonial Surgeon, and finding no hopes of anything likely to be done to improve the hospital, he took it upon himself to calculate what number could be kept there with the likelihood of deriving benefit by treatment, allotting what he considered the least safe superficial space for eacli patient. Then, keeping those who were most in need of treatment, he turned all the others out, and further admissions were regulated, either by the urgency of the case, or by vacancies in the wards.
The large number of mendicants thus thrown on the public, forced the Government to take the first steps toward increasing the accommoda tion, and the erection of a ward outside the hospital enclosure was decided on. Commission after commission was nominated to consider what was to be done, and a poor rate was preposed, as the Poor Fund was gradually disappearing.
As times became better, and the revenues increased, ward after ward was put up, and Mr. Tan Beng Swee built a tile-roofed ward at his own expense; eventually the Government granted votes for the maintenance of the hospital on a more liberal basis. Afterwards under the careful management of Dr. Rowell, it became a well organised hospital and a pride to the Settlement. The whole place was a model of a poor-house and Infirmary combined.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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