HOSPITAL

Related Subjects: Disease, Doctors, Health, Medicine, Sickness

1. The importance of social work in connection with hospitals and dispensaries has been established, and is now recognized as a necessary factor in completing the hospital's service as a social agent in the community.—LUCY C. CATLIN, The Hospital as a Social Agent
   

2. What social worker is better able to know the menace of physical defects and disease to the individual and society than the nurse doing social work in the hospital? And who is in a better position to remedy these defects, and to bring about the cure or isolation of these diseases than this nurse?—LUCY C. CATLIN, The Hospital as a Social Agent
   

3. If the last decade of the nineteenth century saw the significant change in nomenclature from "asy­lum" to "hospital", the twentieth century has witnessed a transformation in fact as well as in name. The process is by no means complete; some "hospitals" have as little right to their title as certain "universities" have to theirs.—ALBERT DEUTSCH, Treatment of the Mentally Ill in
   America
   

4. There are institutions for the mentally ill that are actually abandoned prisons, remodelled for the reception of a new group of "inmates."—ALBERT DEUTSCH, Treatment of the Mentally Ill In America
   

5. The Hospital, grey, quiet, old,
   Where Life and Death like friendly chafferers meet.—W. E. HENLEY, In Hospital