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 RULES AND REGULATIONS, 
 
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 MANAGEMENT 
 
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 Inihrsitg f ging-ln f 0i5pital, 
 
 MONTREAL. 
 
 MONTREAL: 
 
 PRINTED BY JOHN LOYELL, ST. MCHOLAS STRJEBST. 
 1864. 
 
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RULES AND REGULATIONS, 
 
 POR THE MANAOEMlCNT OT THE 
 
 lUriVEESITY LYUTG-IU HOSPITAL, 
 
 MONTREAL. 
 
 Th« InsUtution shall be named the Univemty LjW. 
 m Hospital, and the prime object sought in its estabS 
 
 01 acquiring an acquaintance with the duties anH 
 pact^e of Obstetrics, the practical informatir.hi:^ 
 
 The affairs of the Institution shall be conducted under 
 
 the former being under the control of a Committee of 
 
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 I—D0ME8TIC MANAGEMENT 
 
 Directress Tr^Z ?o ™'' '^'"'^' ^"^ ""W 
 wrectress, Treasurer and Secretary, who shall hoM ,^.i. 
 
 -«puciire oiiices for the term of one year. 
 
3. The Board of Management shall meet monthly, ot 
 oftener if nec' .ssaiy. 
 
 4. Five m. rabers of the Board of Management shall 
 constitute a (^ wrum for the transaction of ordinary 
 business, and the Chair sliall be taken by a Directress 
 according to seniority, if present, or in her absence, by 
 such other Manager as may be designated by those 
 present. 
 
 6. The Board of Management shall appoint, either 
 by ballot or otherwise, from their own number, a certain 
 number of Ladies to act as a Visiting Committe, who 
 shall visit the Institution weekl)^, or oftener, if necessary, 
 preside immediately over its interests, inquire into the 
 conduct of the Institution, ascertain its wants, order such 
 purchases as may be required, for the amount of which 
 their draft or order for payment on the Treasurer will 
 be sufficient, and do all such other business as the state and 
 comfort of the Patients, and necessities of the house 
 may require. 
 
 6. The Visiting Committee shall make a monthly 
 report in writing, of the management of the Institu- 
 tion, to the monthly Meeting of the Board of Manage- 
 ment : the following shall be the order of proceeding : 
 Ist. The Reception of the Report of the Visiting Com- 
 mittee. 2nd. The Report of the attending Physician. 
 3rd. The Treasurer's Report. 4th. The transaction of 
 such other business as the interests of the Institution 
 may require. 
 
 7. The Visiting Committee shall appoint certain days 
 to admit and discharge Patients and servants, they may, 
 (in urgent cases,) admit as Patients, poor women 
 
unsuccessful in their endeavodra to obtain presentations 
 from Subscribers, Clergymen, or others. 
 
 8. The Visiting Committee may make temporary 
 orders for the service of the Institution, but all their 
 proceedings must be reported to the Monthly Meeting. 
 
 9. The Patients with their Infants shall attend the 
 Visit rs, in order to their being discharged, when inquiry 
 shall be made by the Visitors, how they have been used 
 in the Hospital ? whether they have any complaints to 
 make against any of the officers, nurses or servants, or 
 concerning the quantity or quality of the provisions ? 
 and wliether any money or other things have been 
 demanded or taken from them ? and if any complaint 
 be made, it shall be enquired into by the Visitors, before 
 the Patient or Patients making the same be discharged, 
 and such orders made thereon as may be thought proper. 
 If there be no complaint, a letter of thanks shall be 
 given to each Patient, which she is directed to carry 
 immediately after her discharge, to the Subscriber or 
 other who recommended her, to return thanks for the 
 benefit she had received. A paper shall also be given 
 to each Patient for her to hand to the Clerk or Minister 
 of the Church or Chapel she attends, to offer up to 
 Almighty God, thanks for her safe delivery :— after 
 which, the Matron shall be called in, and asked whether 
 she has any complaints against any of the Patients, 
 nurses or servants ; and if any complaints be made, the 
 Visiting Committee shall make the necessary orders 
 thereon. Inquiry shall also be made of the Matron as 
 to the quality if the provisions, and whether anything is 
 wanting for the service of the house or Patients ;" and tie 
 
may be requisite 
 
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 Visitors shall make such ordere as 
 thereon. 
 
 10 J^e letters of recommendation ofPatients,shall be 
 laid before the Visitors, by the Matron, the women pro- 
 ducmg the accepted recommendatory letter, shall be 
 called_ m, and cautioned by the Visitors as to their 
 behaviour during the time they may be in the Hospital, 
 and to submit to the Rules and Regulations thereof, 
 they shall also be informed that no persons can be per- 
 mitted to go into the wards as Visitors, except as provi- 
 ded for ; that no eatables, or drinkables, can be permitted 
 to be brought in, either by themselves or their friends 
 as everything necessary and proper is provided hy the 
 Institution, and more might prove injurious ; that they 
 cannot be permitted to come down into the hall to see 
 their friends, unless their state of health may be such, as 
 to induce the Matron to give her consent for that purpose : 
 that those who are well and able, may be required to 
 make themselves useful, by doing such little matters as 
 the Matron may think fit to direct ; that they must come 
 mto the Hospital, clean in their persons and apparel, 
 and bring with them proper clothing for dressing their 
 children, when they leave it. 
 
 11. The annual Meeting of the Board of Management 
 shall be held each year on the first Fridav in October* 
 for the election of officers, at which a geneial Report of 
 the state of the Institution shall be read, comprising the 
 number of admissions, the result of the cases, the annual 
 expenditure, the prospects of the Institution, and such 
 other matters as may be deemed of interest to the 
 Dublin. 
 
 
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 12. The Board of Physicians of the Institution, may 
 be ex-ofEcio Members of the Board of Management. 
 
 MATRON. 
 
 1. The Matron shall constantly rpside in the Hos- 
 pital, and direct the economy of it. 
 
 2. She shall keep a book, in which she shall make 
 . entries of all sums expended by her for the use of the 
 
 Hospital, and which shall be cast up monthly, and pro- 
 duced to the Visiting Committee at the Monthly Meet- 
 ing, or whenever required. 
 
 3. She shall receive into the Hospital such Patients, 
 as respectively produce orders from the Monthly Visitors, 
 for that purpose signed by a Subsciber or other, accord- 
 ing to' the rules for the admission of patients. 
 
 4. She shall take charge of the household Dods, 
 linen, furniture, and other things committed to her 
 charge, and keep a con-ect inventory thereof, ready to 
 be produced whenever required. 
 
 6. She shall take care that none of the provisions are 
 carried out of the Hospital or wasted, and thai no spiri- 
 tuous liquors, or articles of food, are brought into the 
 Hospital, unless tea and sugar, if specially/ authorized by 
 the Committee. 
 
 6. She "shall take charge of the clothes and money of 
 any Patients who may die in the Hospital, and give 
 immediate notice of their deaths to their relations or 
 friends, or if strangers, to the Church they belonged to, in 
 order to their being buried by such relations or friends 
 or Church. 
 
 7. She shall take care that all the rules, orders and 
 
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 regulations, for the government of the Hospital be 
 strictly attended to. 
 
 8. The Matron shall report to the Monthly Visitors 
 the articles required for the Hospital, also the quantity 
 and quality of such as have been supplied, and examine 
 and lay before them the several Tradesmen's Bills. 
 ^ 9. She shall take her turn with the Midwife in attend- 
 ing Church, and see that the other servants attend 
 Church also in turn. 
 
 10. She shall read a prayer, morning and evening, in 
 one of the wards. 
 
 11. She shall taie, care that in winter, the Patients 
 are m bed at 8 o'clock, and in summer at 9 ; that all 
 the lamps are out except one, unless in case of illness. 
 
 12. In case of non-observance of the rules of the 
 Hospital, misbehaviour, or neglect on the part of Student, 
 Midwife, Patient, Nurse or Servant, or of any occurrence 
 prejudicial to the interests of the Institution, she shall 
 report the same to the Monthly Visitors. 
 
 13. She shall not receive any person to learn Mid- 
 wifery or Nurse tending without the permission of the 
 Committee of Management. 
 
 14. She shall use the same provision as the other in- 
 mates of the Hospital, except tea which shall be of a 
 superior quality. 
 
 15. She must take care that if a Patient on entering 
 the Hospital is not clean in her person anH apparel, the 
 Patient shall be thoroughly cleansed, and her garments 
 changed, and free from any contagious distemper. 
 
 16. In case of severe illness of a Patient, a Priest or 
 
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 17. The Matron must keep a register of the Students 
 practising in the Hospital, calling in each in succession 
 as his name is entered to attend T i > ds. 
 
 WOMEN LEARNING MIDWIFERY OR NURSE 
 TENDING. 
 
 Women who enter the Hospital for the purpose of 
 leaniing Midwifery, must make themselves useful in 
 attending on the Patients and Infants, and must not 
 absent themselves without the leave of the Matron. 
 
 2. They must attend regularly the Lectures on Mid- 
 wifery, and pay a fee of fifteen shillings, unless the 
 Committee of Management see fit to remit the fee. 
 
 3. Those who enter to learn Nurse tending must 
 consider themselves for the time being as in the capa- 
 city of engaged Nurses, and so to submit themselves to 
 the orders of the Matron, and make themselves useful : 
 they must not absent themselves without leave of the 
 Matron, and can have no Visitors, 
 
 4. Only one person can be received at one time, who 
 must produce satisfactory testimonials, and may be liable 
 to be dismissed by the Directress or Visitors for incapa- 
 city, inattention, or uselessness. 
 
 NURSES AND SERVANTS. 
 
 1. The Nurses shall be diligent in observing the direc- 
 tions of the Medical Officers, Midwife, and Matron, with 
 regard to the treatment and care of the Patients in the 
 Hospital. 
 
 2. They shall behave with tenderness to the Patients 
 and with all due respect and civility to Visitors. 
 
 3. They shall not, nArmU o«rr ^r^^ *u^ t>-.x!-_. , 
 
 r~ "V "* '^"'5 A liuciics to go 
 
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 out of their wards without leave from the Matron, and 
 
 ZtCf^^VfT ''"''"""S^ improperly, or contrary 
 to^the Rules of the Hospital .Uey shall inform the Matron 
 
 4. They shall take care that the Patients go to bed at 
 
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 6 The Nu«es shall from time to time during the 
 night, regularly visit the several wards, and give what 
 assistance the Patients may require. 
 
 6. The Nurses shall not bring any spirituous liquors 
 mto the wards, or permit any to be brought in 
 
 7. The Nurses or Servants shall not go out of the 
 Hospital, nor be visited by their friend^ without the 
 Matron's leave: and no V itor shall go into the wards 
 or be treated with the Hospital provisions, neither shall 
 any linen be washed in the Hospital, but that belonging 
 to the Matron, Midwife, Servants, or Patients. 
 
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 9. The Nurses shall sween nnA ^l-.o„ +1 
 eve^^moniing before 8 o'lelTfn stmer'tdTS 
 
 PATIENTS. 
 There shall be two classes of Patients • 
 
 Ist Destitute Females requiring professional attend- 
 ance, from who., no fee shall be exacted. 
 
 2nd Those of better circumstances, wh ^ ^vish to avail 
 ^emselves of the advantages held out to them b/I 
 Institution on payment of a small fee. 
 
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 8rd. Eveiy annual subscriber shall have the privilege 
 of recommending a pauper Patient, supposed to be 
 within two weeks of her confinement, subject however 
 in this latter case to the investigation and approval of 
 one of the Board of Physicians, or the Midwife. 
 
 4. Patients shall be attended by advanced Students 
 of the Midwifery class of the University of McGill 
 College, or by women desirous of acquiring a practical 
 knowledge of Obstetrics, under the control and superin- 
 tendence of the Midwife, but Pay Patients desiring the 
 professional services of the Midwife exclusively, must 
 pay an extra fee of ten shillings. 
 
 6. The fee obtained from Pay Patientsshall be handed 
 over to the Treasurer, to be applied to the uses of the 
 Institution, and shall be in all instances paid in advance 
 by the parties. 
 
 6. No applicant can be admitted as Pay Patient 
 previous to confinement, for a longer period than two 
 weeks, and must be recommended by a Priest, Clergyman, 
 Minister, Subscriber or Physician connected with the' 
 Institution. She must pay ten shillings a week for 
 Board. 
 
 v. If a case of distress or destitution be presented, it 
 being ascertained without doubt that the applicant is 
 married, or recently a widow, the Matron can use her 
 discretion in giving admittance, and for a longer period 
 say six weeks, but on no account shall she admit the 
 person on the strength of her individual assertion ; 
 unmarried women cannot be admitted a second time. 
 
 8. Inconsequenceofthe want of proper asylums for 
 
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 to themselves the right, which shall be exercised by the 
 Visitors with the utmost caution, of departing from the 
 foregoing rules in the following cases, viz: where a 
 Priest, Clergyman, or Minister, or Parent or Guardian, 
 request a refuge for some young female, but the Matron 
 shall guide herself solely by the foregoing rules. 
 
 9. Admittance will not be refused to any Patient in 
 labour notwithstanding any thing contained in these 
 Rules. 
 
 10. Every Patient on entering must be clean, in 
 person and apparel, or submit to a thorough purification. 
 
 11. Every Patient must bring with her (on coming 
 into the Hospital), proper clothing for di'essing her child 
 when she leaves the same, and a change for herself. 
 
 12. No Patient shall be kept in the Hospital longer 
 than three weeks after her delivery, unless by order of 
 the Monthly Visitors, and no Patient shall be allowed 
 to go out of the Hospital without her child. 
 
 1 3. No Patient once admitted, shall leave the Hospital 
 without the permission of the Matron. Any Patient 
 obtaining leave, and presuming to stay out all night, 
 shall bo discharged, the nthly V^isitors informing the 
 subscriber or other who i\ commended her, the reasons 
 thereof. 
 
 14. Every Patient on admission must give her name 
 and residence, and state whether she is married or single, 
 and what church she belongs to. 
 
 15. Patients who are able shall be directed by the 
 Matron to assist the Nurses or do any other business as 
 occasion may require, and also at proper times shall 
 knit and sew. 
 
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 16. Every Patient shall suckle her child while in the 
 Hospital, unless otherwise directed by the Physician. 
 
 1 1. No Protestant will be permitted to take or send her 
 child from the Institution, to the Foundling Hospital of 
 the Grey Nuns, unless under very peculiar circumstances, 
 with the permission of the Visitors. 
 
 18. The Patients shall breakfast at eight o'clock in 
 summer and nine in winter, and shall dine at one and 
 sup at seven. Their diet shall be according to the 
 direction of the Medical Officers, in their respective 
 cases. They shall go to bed at nine in summer and 
 eight in winter. 
 
 19. No liquors or provisions of any kind shall be 
 brought to Patients by their friends 
 
 20. Patients who may feel aggrieved by any person 
 in the Hospital must complain to the Visitors. Patients 
 finding fault with the rules of the Hospital, to be 
 reported by the Matron to the Physician, Directors, or 
 Visitors. Patients transgressing the rules are liable to 
 be expelled by the Directresses or Visitors. 
 
 21. Patients are not without permission to leave their 
 respective wards. 
 
 VISITORS. 
 
 1. Ladies who are subscribers may at any time visit 
 the Wards, and such visits will be esteemed a favour 
 by the Committee. 
 
 2. Subscribers and Physicians connected with the 
 Institution may also bring their friends or others desirous 
 of inspecting the Hospital. 
 
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 VISITORS TO PATIENTS. 
 
 1. By permission of the Matron or confidential person 
 in charge of the Hospital, the husband or near relative 
 of a Patient can be admitted into the ward. 
 
 2. After delivery, the admission of Visitors must be 
 regulated by the state of the Patient, and the direction 
 of the Physican or Midwife. 
 
 3. No Visitor can remain longer than half an hour. 
 
 WET NURSES. 
 
 A fee of ten shillings shall be required of families, non 
 subscribers to the University Lying-in Hospital, who 
 obtain Wet Nurses from the Institution. 
 
 Unmarried women, who send their children to the 
 Grey Nuns, or otherwise part with them, to pay a fee 
 of one pound each, on obtaining situations as Wet Nurses. 
 The families they enter into to be responsible that it be 
 paid within the first quarter after their being engaged. 
 
 THE SECRETARY. 
 
 The Secretary shall attend all Meetings and Com- 
 mittees, &c., and takfc Minutes of the Proceedings, and 
 enter the same in proper Books. 
 
 2. The Secretary shall se(} that the annual Subscriptions 
 are collected in tile proper ;ime, which should be between 
 1st October and the last diy in February in each year, 
 and keep a list of the Subscribers. 
 
 3. The Secretary shall send out all circulars, cards, 
 &c., answer all letters according to direction of the 
 Committee, draft annual reports, prepare petitions, &c. 
 
 4. The Secretary shall notify every annual Subscriber 
 when the subscription is due. 
 
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 THE TLI^aSURER. 
 
 The Treasurer shall receive all subscriptions, dona- 
 tions, fees, and all monies for the use of the Hospital, 
 and shall not pay any money without the approval or 
 sanction of the Directress and Lady Managers, except 
 the rent and taxes of the building occupied by the IIos- 
 pital, and the salaries of the Matron and Midwife, 
 which may be paid in due course, unless directed to the 
 contrary. 
 
 2. The Treasurer shall render a statement of accounts 
 up to the last day of every month, to be presented to 
 the Monthly Meeting held on the first day thereafter. 
 
 3. The Treasurer shall deposit the monies belonging 
 tothe Institution, in some chartered Dank, to be approved 
 of by the Lady Managers, whenever the same shall 
 exceed £12 10s. 
 
 4. The Treasurer shall keep the accounts of the Hospi- 
 tal in a methodical manner, file all bills, receipts, and 
 other papers, at the Hospital, in order that the same 
 may be inspected by the Committee. 
 
 6. The Treasurer shall lay before the Annual Meeting 
 the names of Subscribers, the list of arrears, the amount 
 given by Subscribers opposite their names, the amount 
 of the preceding year's receipts, expenses, &c. 
 
 PROFESSIONAL MANAGEJMENT. 
 1. Tlie Professional Management of the Hospital, 
 shall be under the control of the Faculty of Medicine 
 of the University of McGill College, the Lecturer on^ 
 Midwifery of which shall be the Attending Physician, 
 
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 other Members of the same Faculty forming a Board 
 of Consulting Physicians. 
 
 THE MIDWIFE. 
 
 1. The Midwife shall, if possible, be thoroughly edu- 
 cated, whose duties shall, as far as practicable in a 
 professional point of view, be similar to those of the 
 resident Physician of analogous Institutions in Great 
 Britain and the United States. 
 
 2. She must act under the directions of the Medical 
 Officers, and in cases of doubt or emergency, shall have 
 recourse to the attending Physician, or in his absence, 
 to one of the consulting Physicians. 
 
 3. The Midwife shall not attend any labour out of the 
 Hospital for her own emolument, or on any purpose 
 whatsoever. 
 
 4. She must give the Matron timely notice when a 
 Patient's labour is commencing, in order that the Stu- 
 dent in waiting may be sent for. 
 
 6. The Midwife, who must constantly reside in the 
 house, shall be present at every birth, and never trust 
 the Patient to the Medical knowledge of any Student. 
 
 6. She must assist in nursing and attending upon 
 the patients after delivery, shall attend to their diet, and 
 for whatever is required for the Patient, shall apply to 
 the Matron. 
 
 7. If a Physician, Priest or Minister be required, she 
 is to give the earliest notice to the Matron, or in the 
 Matron's absence shall send herself. 
 
 8. She shall take her turn with the Matron in attend- 
 ing Church, and shall board at the Matron's table^ 
 
 
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 MEDICAL REGISTRAR. 
 
 The Medical Registrar must bo either a Physician, or 
 an advanced Medical Stu< cijt. ITo shall keep the Ward 
 Book with regularity, wherein shall be stated each case 
 and its peculiarities. He shall also keep the General 
 Registry with punctuality and exactness, shewing the 
 name of each Patient, dates of admission and discharge, 
 whether married or un-married. Religious persuasion, <fec, 
 and shall be t)X-officio, a Member of the C'^mmittee. 
 
 STUDENTS. 
 
 1. None can be admitted without being examined by 
 the Physician, and producing a certificate from him of 
 proper qualification. 
 
 2. A fee of £1 5s. must be paid by each Student, on 
 attending their first Patient in each term. 
 
 3. No Student must ever attempt to deliver a Patient, 
 unless the resident Midwife is present. 
 
 4. Students cannot be allowed to smoke, or to use 
 spirituous liquors in the Hospital. 
 
 GENERAL RULES. 
 
 1. No Nurse, Servant or other person belonging to the 
 Hospital shall presume to take of any patient, servant, 
 stranger, or others, any fee, reward or gratuity of any 
 kind, for any service done, or to be done, on account of 
 the Hospital, on pain of being immediately discharged. 
 
 2. A notice, in large letters, shall be placed in a con- 
 spicuous part of each ward, to caution the Patients 
 
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 against offering, mn] tin J^ur^^* and Servants against 
 receiving, any gratuity v^-b.;^' j from tU Tatients or 
 their friends. 
 
 3. No Matron, Mnlw'ife, Nurse, . r other person belong- 
 ing to the Hoii*itAi shall bo allowed to maintain her or 
 their childrea, £»• o^et dependants, within or at tho 
 charge of the Uotptal. 
 
 4. Every Nursr and oihvt Servant shall be acquaint*^ 
 at the time of her being hir«d, that she is to do any 
 business which the necessity of the Hospital requires, 
 though not in the particular station for which she was 
 hired. 
 
 6. If any Nurse, Servant, or other person in ihe Hos- 
 pital, shall convey out of it any provisions, or other 
 things belonging to the Hospital, she shall be immediately 
 discharged, and shall not be re-admitted on any account 
 whatever. 
 
 6. All Rules, Orders, and Regulations of the Hospital 
 shall 6 stHctly obeyed, and no alteration shall be 
 made therei. nor any new law, (fee,, be made except by 
 theCommi'ee at their Monthly Meeting; and one 
 month's notice shall be given of any proposed alteration, 
 or new law or regulation. 
 
 May, 1854. 
 
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 UNIVERSITY LYING-IN nOSPITAL. 
 
 DIET TABLE. 
 
 Breakfast. 
 
 Full. 
 
 1 pint Tea and 
 
 4 oz bread, 
 
 or 
 
 1 pt. Por/id^e <fe 
 i pint Millv. 
 
 Half. 
 
 Dinner. 
 
 i lb. :a"eai, 
 1 lb. i'otat.ea, 
 4 oz. Bread, 
 1 pint Soup. 
 
 1 pint Tea and 
 4 oz. Bread, 
 or 
 
 1 pt. Porridfje & 
 i pint Milic. 
 
 liOW. 
 
 Supper. 
 
 1 pint Tea and 
 4 oz. Bread, 
 or 
 
 1 pt. Porridpfe & 
 i pint Milk. 
 
 1 pint Soup, 
 4 oz. Bread 
 
 Aa 
 
 maybe 
 
 ordered. 
 
 1 pint Tea, 
 
 2 oz. Bread. 
 
 N. B. 1^ oz. of butter allowed to each patient per 
 day; also 3 oz. tea, and 6 oz. sugar, per week. 
 
 On the days on which Roman Catholics require fish, 
 It is to be provided for them, also for Protestants who 
 desire it, but not both fish and meat. 
 
 ^ jug of gruel, and also one of toast water, to be al- 
 ways kept in the wards where women are confined. 
 
 The Nurses and Servants shall take their meals in the 
 kitchen. 
 
 Any Student detained by a lingering case, or up at 
 Birrht, may he provided with refieshment in th*^ Hos- 
 
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 MORNING PRAYER. 
 
 O Father of Mercies and God of all comfort, we pray 
 Thee look down in pity and compassion upon us thine 
 unworthy servants, who now present ourselves before 
 the Throne of Grace, beseeching thee mercifully to hear 
 us for Jesus Christ's sake. Give ur a right understand- 
 ing of ourselves and of thy threats and promises, that we 
 may neither cast away our confidence in thee, nor place 
 it any where but in thee. Give us strength against all 
 temptations and heal our distempers. Shut not up thy 
 tender mercies in d^ pleasure ; but though we have sin- 
 ned, have compassion upon us, and make us to hear of 
 joy and gladness. Deliver us, O Lord, from the danger 
 of the enemy ; lift up the light of thy countenance upon 
 us, and give us peace ; for the sake of Jesus Christ, our 
 most blessed Lord and Saviour. 
 
 Almighty and Everlasting God, who hast turned the 
 darkness into light, and hast renewed the face of the 
 earth ; who hast unlocked our eyes from sleep, and our 
 eyelids from slumber; by whose mercy thy servants 
 have laid us down and slept, and have arisen again, 
 because Thou, O Lord, hast made us to dwell in safety ; 
 blessed be Thy Holy Name for this and for all thy mer- 
 cies — and now that Thou hast mercifully brought us to 
 the light of the day, grant that we may walk as child- 
 ren of the light, soberly, purely, and honestly. Let thy 
 favour accompany us throughout this day ; defend our 
 bodies from all evil accidents, and our souls from the 
 snares and deceitfulness of sin. Suffer not our days to 
 
 be P.nnaiimPfl in varilflT- nni- /mi»< rranva in +vi^iil%l^. l-i'i* 
 
 grant that each succeeding day may so tell and instruct 
 
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 ftliother, that, we tnay advance in peace and holiness 
 towards Thy Heavenly Kingdom. Set a watch, O Lord, 
 before the door of our lips, that no evil words or corrupt 
 communications may proceed out of our mouths. Re- 
 move far from us all presumptuous imaginations, and 
 inspire us with such thoughts as are good and well 
 pleasing in thy sight — and, while we pray for oui-selves, 
 we beseech thee to give us grace that we may be 
 mindful of the wants of others. Let thy grace and 
 heavenly benediction be shed upon all those who are 
 connected with us by kindred or friendship, and let 
 thy forgiveness be extended to all who have done or 
 wished us harm. Hearken, O Lord, to the voice of 
 our supplications. Pour upon us the riches of thy 
 grace : and so sanctify us and bless us, that we msy 
 serve thee henceforth in body and soul, and live in 
 thy holy love and fear unto our lives end. Grant this, 
 O Heavenly Father, for the sake of Jesus Christ, Thy 
 Son, to whom, with Thee and the Holy Ghost, be all 
 honour and glory, world without end. Amen. 
 
 Our Father, which art in Heaven, Hallowed be thy 
 name. Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done in Earth 
 as it is in Heaven, Give us this day our daily bread. 
 And forgive us our trespasses, As we forgive them that 
 trespass against us, And lead us not into temptation. 
 But deliver us from evil : For thine is the Kingdom, The 
 power, and the glory. For ever and ever. Amen. 
 
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 EVENING PRATER. 
 
 Almighty God, our Redeemer and our Judge, we 
 bow down before Thee in deep humility, acknowledging 
 our unworthiness, and Thy manifold and great mercies. 
 —Look graciously upon thy servants, O Lord, and visit 
 us with Thy salvation. Give us penitent hearts for all 
 the sins we have committed against Thee, together with 
 a lively faith in thy Son Jesus Christ, who came into 
 the world to save sinners. Send us help in the time of 
 need, and grant us thy grace so to put away the leaven 
 of malice and wickedness, that we may serve Thee in 
 pureness of living and truth to the honor and glory of 
 Thy Name, through Jesus Christ our Lord. 
 
 O, Immortal God, on whom the eyes of all do wait; 
 remember every creature of Thine for good, and visit 
 the world wi.'-h Thy mercy. Let Thy goodness, O God, 
 be extended to all sorts and conditions of men, let Thy 
 grace be poured upon the people whom thou hast 
 redeemed, that the multitude of them that believe, may 
 be of one heart and one soul. Have mercy upon, and 
 be gracious to, all our benefactors, relations and friends. 
 O Thou that art the helper of the helpless, and 
 refuge for the destitute, look upon all that are in 
 trouble, and call upon thee for succor and protection. 
 Establish and strengthen Thou them that stand, restore 
 the weak, and raise up them that fall, and grant unto 
 all Thy servants such a due sense of Thy perpetual 
 loving kindness, that we may not cease to render unto 
 Thee our hearty praises and thanksgivings, through 
 Jesus Christ our Lord. 
 
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 O, Thou that art the keeper of Israel, that neither 
 Blumberest nor sleepest, preserve us this night from 
 all manner of evil. Lighten our eyes, that we sleep 
 not in death. Defend us from the terrors of the night 
 and from the pestilence that walketh in darkness. 
 Visit us, O Lord, with the favour which Thou bearest 
 unto Thy chosen, and grant that this needful season of 
 rest may be an entire cessation as well from sin as 
 from care and sorrow, and after such refreshment as 
 Thou shalt see fit, raise thou us up again to make our 
 prayers unto Thee, in a time when thou mayest be 
 found, that so we may begin and end all our days 
 in Thy most blessed service, which is perfect freedom, 
 through our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen. 
 Our Father, which art in Heaven, Hallowed be Thy 
 name, Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done in Earth 
 as it is in He iven. Give us this day our daily bread. 
 And foTgivo us our trespasses, as we forgive them that 
 trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, 
 But deliver us from evil : For thine is the Kingdom, 
 The power, and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen,