Get ready to enjoy the new Chanel handbags pre-collection for fall 2013! This time our beloved label comes up with an amazing collection that offers stylish statement-making handbags that surely will become the latest obsession of any self-respecting fashionista. What steals attention from the first sight is that despite the fact that the label seems putting the main focus on redesigning the classics also comes up with fresh, modern alternatives.
Thus, the label's new line seems well-thought to satisfy all fashionistas whether their main preference appears to be classy or modern. In fact if you take a closer look you'll definitely notice how the diversity of used fabric makes the difference! There is no doubt that if you are looking for the perfect accessories for a sophisticated look the new Chanel handbags pre-collection for fall 2013 is exactly what you need.
What makes this line very luxurious is the diversity of cool textures that the designers opted for in order to create sophisticated pieces that will perfectly complete a stylish look and bring any fashionista in the center of attention.
Now pay attention to the Twisted Wool and Sheep Shopping Bag. This statement-making handbag comes to prove that cable knit pattern not only looks perfect on sweaters but can actually be used for accessories too! So this handbag definitely is a great choice for those who always dress to impress! For those who prefer sporty style the label offers felt bags with fab texture that totally matches with any outfit of such style and creates the needed mood, while for a classy look the label comes up with adorable clutches with the well-known logo on.
What we would like to mention at last, is that if this is what Chanel presents for fall pre-collection, then we can`t wait to see what the main fall 2013 collection will feature.


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Latin America's Millennial Beauty Icon: Blanche Macdonald Makeup graduate Laura Sanchez
Laura Sanchez is a living example of the wondrous things that come from fearlessly and relentlessly chasing your passion. Laura has built a life around her passions, which have now become her profession. The Blanche Macdonald Makeup graduate has gone on to become the first Hispanic winner of the NYX Face Awards (2016), and is a regular contributor to Popsugar, Univision, and People En Español. She was featured in Meghan Trainor's "Lips are Movin'" music video, and collaborated with Latin pop stars Thalia and Camila Cabello of Fifth Harmony. A quick Google search pulls up photos of the professional Makeup Artist with everyone from Nick Jonas, to Luis Fonsi of "Despacito", to Patricia Field – the costume designer behind screen hits Sex and the City and The Devil Wears Prada! She's done a makeover on Perez Hilton's mom, been featured in Glamour Mexico, HOLA Magazine, Latin Times, racked, Tiger Beat, Teen Vogue, CNN Chile, Latino Scoop – where she recreated horror looks from the film Krampus – Enews, and El Tiempo.
In short, she's become a beauty icon for millennial Latinas. She sits in a purple-themed room (though she says she's often changing the colours for her Youtube videos) while a cat and dog dip in and out of the Skype-frame every few minutes. Fiddling with her rainbow hair, she laughs unassumingly as she talks about the success her career has met in its few short years. Charming, dazzling, and incredibly talented, Laura Sanchez is more than a beauty influencer. She is a beauty professional.
First off, what initially brought you to Vancouver?
I came to Vancouver to study English with my school for a few months. While I was in Vancouver, I made some friends from Mexico who were studying film. I started helping them with their homework and doing the makeup for the short films they would do. I started having to Google 'how to make blood' and 'how to make zombies'. That's when I started thinking about doing makeup professionally.
How did you know Blanche Macdonald was where you wanted to study?
I was having so much fun working on set with my friends and they told me that Vancouver was the place to be for the TV & Film industry. So I started looking around for schools and Blanche Macdonald had great connections and classes for me to succeed in that industry – that's what made me decide to enroll!
What did you think of the program and your time in it?
I loved it! I remember when I got there I wanted to go into the Global Makeup program but I had to pass the TOEFL exam first. I was so happy when I did! I loved my whole experience! The teachers are so experienced and nice, you can always ask questions and they're there to help. And the classes are so small and personalized! I really feel that I was able to learn almost everything about the whole world of Makeup in the time I was there, from beauty makeup to Special Effects, to body painting. Then they also told you how to find and apply for jobs and how to create a portfolio. And they helped you actually know how to be a Makeup Artist once you were done studying!
Were your parents supportive of your career choice?
My parents have always been supportive of me, I'm very lucky that way. When I left Colombia to come study English in Canada, I had no idea what I wanted to do. When I called them and said I'd figured it out, they were so glad I found something I was passionate about.
You were based out of Colombia but are now living in LA. How did that come about?
After I finished my Makeup program, I went back to Colombia and I was working as a Makeup Artist on photoshoots and in TV. One day, I just decided that I wanted to create my own Youtube channel and do makeup on there too. The main thing that seperated my videos in the beginning was that I did my tutorials in Spanish – not many people did at that time and so my videos took off really quickly. I met a woman through my makeup jobs in Colombia that lived in LA most of the time and she kept telling me how LA would be so good for me and my brand. So I made the move from Colombia to West Hollywood and she is my manager now!
How incredible! What made you decide on using Youtube?
I followed a whole bunch of Youtube channels, but they were all in English and I couldn't find any in Spanish. When I was in Vancouver posting photos of my makeup at school, people were always re-posting my work and asking questions about what I used or how I did that look and it just made sense to me to start making videos where I could properly explain. Sometimes descriptions or captions just don't work to explain it fully.
You obviously do a lot of makeup videos but you also do a fair amount of video that focuses on other areas of your life. How do you decide what makes it into a video and what is your own personal life?
Youtube is definitely becoming more of a blogging platform that shows your day-to-day life. My rule that I try to work with is that if I can relate something to makeup, I'll film it. Like if I'm going to a party, I'll film me getting ready for it and doing my makeup and then a bit of the party and my friends. But I'm careful to keep my life with my family and friends private, otherwise it's not my private life anymore!
In addition to your Youtube following, you've also got a massive Instagram following (over 900K!). How would you describe your demographics?
My Youtube audience is people from about 18 years old to 26, probably Hispanic and kinda funky. My Instagram is a little bit of everything. Spanish doesn't matter as much on Instagram. I have followers from North America, South America, Latin America – all over! Everytime I post a video on Youtube, I promote it on Instagram. Instagram needs activity everyday so I post more daily makeup on there and Youtube is where I do my more elaborate tutorials, and so those differences always draw certain kinds of followers too.
Can you explain some of the main differences in beauty between Latin America and North America?
Latin America uses more makeup and does more crazy makeup. North America is more natural, focusing on healthy and dewy skin. Now though, more boys and girls in North America are picking up the 'full glam' look and wearing a lot of cool makeup! I think it's changing a lot right now. It used to be that only some people did fun makeup but now it's becoming something for self-expression and for anyone to have fun with.
What does a typical week in your life look like right now?
It can be so different! But if I'm working on a video, I film it at home. Then I take one day to edit it and then I upload it the next. I'm on my computer most of the day. If I go out, it's for events, a product launch, or a party. I do travel a lot too to Latin America, places like Colombia, Mexico, Chile, and Spain. Depending on the week, I could be a host one night, doing my makeup videos, or fulfilling my influencer duties with a brand – my weeks are a little bit of everything!
That sounds amazing! With now over ONE MILLION subscribers, you must get recognized everywhere you go! Do you remember the first time it happened?
Oh yes! I was in Colombia going to the movies with my parents and two girls came up and asked me if we could take a photo. My mom was so confused and I was so nervous! I was scared I'd accidentally been too nervous and not talkative enough so I found the photo they had taken and tagged of us and I wrote them apologizing saying how nervous I'd been to be recognized.
What is the coolest thing you've gotten to do being an influencer and profesional Makeup Artist?
Everything to me is cool! I never thought I was going to have a life like this. It's so cool to have your own brand and live off of something you enjoy so much.
You won the NYX Face Awards in 2016. Can you tell us about your win and what it was like?
It was incredible. It was the first time someone Hispanic, who did their videos in Spanish, had won. That was so exciting for me and for the Hispanic community in the United States because sometimes we feel like we're not recognized. I got so much support from the Latin community voting on my videos and sharing and commenting on them – it was such a great experience. After I won, I got brand deals and collaborations – it's opened so, so many doors and created so many opportunities for me! NYX is such an amazing company and they have so many good products.
You were just invited to the Latin Grammys! What was it like?
It was so fun! I was invited because I'm a brand ambassador with Colgate but I did makeup for Leslie Grace as well, who was nominated and presenting. So I did a little bit of everything!
What does the future look like for your brand?
My own makeup! But it takes a looootttt of time, effort, and money. I'm hoping that I'll be able to launch something by next summer though!
What's your dream product to make?
A palette. I love, love, love palettes. But I also want to make concealers, foundations, lipsticks, blushes… HAH!
Laura's Top Five Tips on starting a social media brand and empire:
Be disciplined
Don't try and become famous
Like any job, it's hard work. So make sure to put that work in!
Be online. A LOT!
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Popular Candy from the 1980s. 80's Candy sold by the box, by the piece, in bulk and in Retro Candy Gift Assortments. Bust out the Atari and tune in to MTV. Video may have killed the radio star, but our 1980's candies will live on forever.


Great to be here. On and off Linux user since the early 90's (Started with Slackware). Got back into this last week and was able to install the distro with Gnome3 pretty quickly considering me being very rusty. I have to say, this is a great distro. I tried Ubuntu (wanted to see what all the fuzz was all about), that lasted half a day -- very dissapointed with how slow and bloated that was and am now enjoying Arch. I must say, after installing this to my liking, I feel brushed up on Linux and feel as if I'm up to date with the new stuff that the last 6 years has brought on.
Glad to be here. Long time ago (thinking early 90s) beginning with Debian and several other Distro's like Gentoo, Sabayon and Fedora I was for about five years inactive in the linux Community. Reading here for several weeks ago I thought it's time for me to start new experiment with Archlinux because I found his KISS principal very clear. As (for me) new Beginner turned for two days ago to systemd with your excellent Wiki without problems.
Regain my Skills with zsh and scripting I hope I can help in near Future this Community growing up.
P.S: Sorry for my bad Language I'm not English hope you understood my post with a little smile of my bad Grammar.
i'm 4 months using Archlinux moving away from Ubuntu distro. I must say, Arch has been behaving very well so far and I'm starting to have less stress since using it. Installation is very straight forward and to the point (Beginners'_Guide). The distro is very fruitful, and hope the community is very helpful as well. I'm looking forward to start porting some of my favourite apps to Arch if they are not ported yet. Would also like to contribute or help where possible....!
Hello everyone, really enjoying creeping all over the forums so far. Used a few different distro's before, never for very long, for a variety of reasons.I only have very VERY basic linux knowledge. So of course, i picked arch to really settle down on, because i'm stubborn and like a challenge.
I am a newbee archlinux user. I am trying to install arch linux on my new desktop as I heard of its simplicity and easy maintenance. I am however an intermediate linux user, but very much interested in learning arch linux. I am facing tough time to get it installed on my desktop, which has a RAID 1 hardware. The installation process itself was elegant which encouraged me to stick to arch linux. However, it seems presently I can't pass the initial hurdle of getting it working. Is there a simple guide explaining the installation with hardware RAID-1 configured harddisks ?
Well hello, I am Sa\[i\]nT.
I am an avid installer of linux systems, I am kinda addicted to it. This laptop has seen more than it's fair share of different OS'es. Arch has slowed me down to a crawl, I simply love this OS. I am using the MATE wm having installed pure Arch. Which took a while as it is not a conventional install, but I learned a lot from the install and using Arch in general.
I am a windows programmer at hobby, doing mostly win32/winapi/MFC, etc. I am looking now for something steady and stable like that to focus in on linux.
P.s. Pacman is a great tool, I suggest pacmatic as well.
A long time SuSE / openSUSE user here wondering about the colour of the grass on this side of the fence...which seems to be whatever I make it. Nice!
I am an Arch user now because I'm done with Windows & I feel like I'm not learning anything with Ubuntu or openSUSE.
I'm 19 and I started using linux about 4 yrs ago. I've started from Mandriva 2008 and I didn't like it so much. After Mandriva I've started using Ubuntu and I still using it on my PC and notebook. I had fun with other distro like CentOS, Debian, Backtrack (still having a live cd always with me).
Now I have a RasperryPi with ArchLinux on it and that's why I'm on this forum.
I started to use Linux Mint a year ago because I got tired of Win7, switched to Ubuntu quite soon (because I really like Unity) and finally decided to try out Arch.
"Eine wirklich gute Idee erkennt man daran, dass ihre Verwirklichung von vornherein ausgeschlossen erschien."
I've immigrated from Macintosh OS. Macintosh is great UNIX environment but I want to create my own desktop like every arch lover upload their cool desktop.
I finally chose Arch instead of other distributions because it has the most detailed documents and fantastic community.
I learned a lot from here, and I hope I can help others, too.
I just did my second ever Arch install, the first one was about 3 years ago on a Via PicoITX, this is on an Asus EeePC with poulsbo. Nonetheless, setup was pretty simple, I've gotten absolutely everything working, bar nothing, in a couple days, without needing help. I guess both Arch and I have improved in 3 years. I've never had a computer work so well. I'd consider moving up to programs like UZBL etc, but there just seems to be too much to remember for someone who isn't an IT professional or severe hobbyist. Very satisfied.
I've probably read a help thread on this forum once a week for the past 4 years... Decided I should sign up. I think I may finally know enough to be useful around here.
My name is Omid. After leaving slavery in Windows and wandering for two years through the wilderness of Ubuntu, Mint, and Fedora, I finally landed on the promised land of Arch Linux last week. In this week of experience, I have learned so much, and that is because of the philosophy of arch that force you politely to understand what is behind the curtain. I managed to install a fresh fast, stable and good looking system just by following the wiki. Arch wiki rocks.
So I finally got Arch installed on my desktop after some messing around on the virtualbox and paying attention to the wiki. I like it, chose KDE everything seems fine which is awesome since I installed Arch on a hard drive that no other Linux distro was working on, everything else would freeze up for some reason. I've been using Linux for a while now after my laptop hard drive died and I didn't want to buy windows. Mainly used the "user friendly" ones like Ubuntu, Kubuntu, etc. This was a lot of fun, it wasn't as easy as installing some of the others, but when I installed Ubuntu for example, I didn't get a sense of accomplishment like I did with Arch. I have been playing around with different distros, right now we have Mint with Cinnamon on the laptop, Lubuntu on my wife's netbook, #! (Crunchbang) on my other hard drive and now, Arch. I don't have any problems with it yet and when/if I do, I promise to search the forums/google before asking for help. I've been trying to learn how to Linux and this has definitely helped. I'm reading up on Linux trying to give myself a base knowledge of the commands and systems. Thank you to everyone who put together the Wiki, the Forums and Arch!
I'm a pkgsrc (and NetBSD) developer who's been inactive for way too long. I've been nominally aware of your distribution for years, but have only tried it as of late--my loss!
Truly, this is the only linux distribution that I actually enjoy working with. My skills have regrettably atrophied over the years, but ultimately I hope to contribute to e.g. pkgsrc integration.
On what grounds would a system administrator choose any other distribution? Finally, a bastion of sanity in a sea of mediocrity and creeping "featureism". Glad to be here, because this is unequivocally where it's at.


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Dynasty, Focus Team Up as Battle for Independents Intensifies
Charles Paikert | Oct 25, 2011
The already fierce battle among service providers and aggregators to win the allegiance of independent advisors is heating up, with new business models, strategies and unlikely alliances roiling one of the industry's most competitive sectors.
Last week Dynasty Financial Partners, the wealth management platform led by Todd Thomson and Shirl Penney, scored a major coup by partnering with Lori Van Dusen's LVW Advisors to provide research and potentially other services. The Rochester, N.Y.-based Van Dusen, who has nearly $5 billion in assets under advisement, made headlines earlier this month when she left Convergent Wealth Advisors to set up her own firm as part of one of the industry's leading aggregators, Focus Financial Partners.
This month also saw the re-boot of yet another firm attempting to muscle its way into the crowded roll-up space. After a slow start last year, suburban Philadelphia-based Merion Wealth Partners hopes to gain traction with a new chief executive: the high-profile hire of Jim Barnash, a past president of the Financial Planning Association; the addition of new RIAs to the fold; and a business model based on showcasing financial planning over asset management. A fee structure based on retainers rather than a percentage of assets under management is also in the mix.
Dynasty's unexpected deal with Van Dusen and Focus raised eyebrows throughout the industry. "We may be seeing the business model morphing before our eyes," said Jeff Spears, chief executive and founder of San Francisco-based Sanctuary Wealth Services, which also competes for the business of independent wealth managers as a platform provider and business support partner.
Some industry observers believe Dynasty's high–level industry connections and state-of-the art platform, when combined with Focus' deep pockets and impressive track record as an aggregator, make for a powerful alliance, at least for firms like Van Dusen's that target the high and ultra-high-net-worth market.
But for now, Focus and Dynasty, both dominated by high-powered personalities, still appear to be in the courtship phase. Dynasty is currently providing "purely" research capabilities to LVW, according to Focus chief executive Rudy Adolf. "Dynasty made a compelling proposal in this narrow but important area," Adolf said. "If they prove themselves, there will be more opportunities to work with them. If they don't, there are plenty of other vendors to choose from."
Dynasty's "Ideal Formula"
Dynasty sees things a bit differently. For now, LVW is using Dynasty's institutional investment research platform, which includes firms like Callan Associates, Fund Evaluation Group and Strategic Investment Solutions. But LVW also "has access to" other components of Dynasty's wealth management platform, such as trust services, lending and insurance, said Shirl Penney, Dynasty's president and chief executive.
As for future ventures, Dynasty chairman Todd Thomson said "We believe that for some teams, the ideal formula would be to combine Dynasty's comprehensive platform with the equity and operational or strategic support that might be provided by firms like Focus, Washington Wealth Management, AMG Wealth Partners and others."
No matter what the future holds, both Dynasty and Focus are clearly on hot streaks. In addition to landing LVW deal as the sixth firm in its advisor network, Dynasty also added Risk Paradigm Group, a Chicago-based hedge fund that recently acquired RIA firms in Boston and Austin, Tex. And in the past two months, Focus has snapped up Boston-based Colony Group and Hufford Financial Advisors of Indianapolis, the firms' fifth and sixth deals of the year, giving it a major stake in two dozen advisory firms around the country with combined assets of over $45 billion.
Also battling for the allegiance of "breakaway brokers" and wealth management teams and firms looking for a home (or a pay-out) are well-funded competitors such as United Capital and HighTower Advisors, which itself made a splash last week by hiring Ann Reider, branch manager of a $2 billion private client office of Morgan Stanley Smith Barney in suburban Chicago, to be branch manager of HighTower's Midwest territory.
Merion's Re-Boot
Merion is hoping to elbow its way into this elite group after a rough start last October. Backed by funding from CDV Capital and Ash Investment Fund, Merion hoped to break out of the gate with multiple acquisitions and quickly reach $1 billion in assets. But a cornerstone early pact with a breakaway wirehouse team in Farmington, Conn., didn't work out, and, a year after launching, Merion only has $100 million in assets and a partnership with just one RIA in Bethlehem, Penn., in addition to an affiliate agreement with another in Fort Wayne, Ind.
But that's about to change, said Richard Hughes, the former co-president of Portfolio Management Consultants, a unit of Envestnet Asset Management, who took over as Merion's president and chief executive in the spring. Merion has letters of intent from three RIAs to join Merion, according to Hughes, and is also negotiating a deal with a bank that has a national charter to exchange private banking and wealth management services. In addition, the company expects approval next month from FINRA to operate Mercap, a new broker-dealer.
"We're looking for practices that have individual unique skill sets and advisors who want to preserve their legacy," said Hughes, who was also president of Rittenhouse Financial Services and president of the separate accounts division for Nuveen Investments. "Our model is to merge practices into a holding company in exchange for cash and equity in the partnership."
A public offering isn't part of the plan, Hughes said. Instead, partners will be able to sell shares back to the partnership privately "presumably at a higher multiple" than they would have achieved had they remained independent.
Financial Planning, Retainers "Core" of Strategy
Merion hopes to attract advisors – and clients – by offering expertise in specialty areas such as charitable gift-gifting, legacy and estate planning, and, through its partnership with Ash Brokerage, risk management and insurance. But highlighting financial planning will be the "core" of Merion's strategy, according to Hughes.
"Access to advice, expertise and resources is the value proposition, not 'I can get you a better rate of return than anyone else,'" said Barnash, Merion's new senior vice president of business development.
Services that advisors "can't be best of breed at" will be outsourced to providers such as asset management specialist Envestnet, according to Barnash, a former national director of financial planning for Ameriprise and managing director for Lincoln Financial Advisors. "We're not leading with product," he emphasized, "Our offering is competency to bring advice strategy to financial planning and areas like executive benefits and 401k plans."
Ultimately, advisors should be paid on a retainer model, Barnash said, with additional fees coming from additional projects for the client. He called the industry's traditional fee structure of charging a percentage of assets under management a "big hoax," describing it as nothing more than "the old transaction model disguised in a different form."
Both Barnash and Hughes acknowledge that advisors aren't likely to switch to a retainer model anytime soon, although they do believe it's the wave of the future. "It will be an evolution and not a revolution," Hughes said. "It won't be implemented tomorrow, but that's the way we see the industry moving."
Industry observers disagree, although they do find merit it Merion's emphasis on financial planning.
"Jim Barnash is a very high profile hire, and he knows as much about financial planning as anyone," said industry consultant Tim Welsh, president of Nexus Strategy in Larkspur, Calif.
"Financial planning gives you better share of wallet, helps you better understand your clients' goals and leads to less compliance issues. The downside is how do you make money doing it when it's usually included in fees as a loss leader. It's hard to get people to pay for planning separately when it's not bundled in."
As for charging a retainer, Welsh said Merion's challenge will be, "How articulate will they be in explaining what you get for that retainer fee?"
Spears was also skeptical. "The retainer model doesn't work," he said. "You end up getting service creep, where the client keeps wanting more services for the same fee and your margins get squeezed."
But spotlighting financial planning had real potential, Spears said. "It's a skill set their competitors in that space don't have," he said, " and it's worked well for wealth management firms like Aspiriant, Baker Street and My CFO."
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These pictures taken at a knee arthroscopy show smooth, intact articular cartilage on the left and a defect in the articular cartilage of the knee on the right. The pink area is bone beneath the articular cartilage which is being treated using the 'microfracture' technique (see below).
Articular cartilage (hyaline cartilage) is the white smooth surface of joints which makes a low friction bearing, lubricated by a thin film of joint fluid. It has a limited capacity to heal when injured and trauma to the knee is now recognised to be a potent cause of knee osteoarthritis. Surgery has a role in treating articular cartilage damage and is broadly divided into three categories.
Microfracture. A technique which causes bleeding from the bone beneath the area of damage to cause scar tissue to form in the damaged area
Mosaicplasty. Plugs of articular cartilage are transplanted from another area of the knee joint to fill the area of damage
transplantation (ACT). Small pieces of articular
cartilage are taken from the knee and grown in culture, before being reintroduced into the area of damage. Two operations are required.
Unfortunately, none of these techniques provide a reliable solution to repairing damaged articular cartilage. ACT shows promise and almost certainly tissue culture holds the key to findings way to regenerate areas of articular cartilage damage and reduce the risk of osteoarthritis.
The rough and irregular joint surface indicates that osteoarthritis has developed within the knee
RWN's view
ACT or similar techniques may be the future, but are not commonly available at the moment. A combination of microfracture and mosaicplasty are used to repair isolated defects in articular cartilage caused by an injury. The healing process is slow, over six to 12 months, but there will be an improvement in the short/medium term approximately 80% of cases, but it is unsure at this stage if the longer term risk of osteoarthritis is reduced by these procedures. Much research is taking place to explore the most effective way to 'regrow' articular cartilage when it has been damaged. These techniques are used to treat knee damage before arthritis has developed, they are not suitable for treating established knee arthritis.


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The Story of Molesey Hospital
Rowland G. M. Baker, 1981
"Honour a physician with the honour due unto him"
Ecclesiasticus, xxxviii, 1
1874 - The first attempt
1889 - A second attempt
The Dowager Lady Barrow
1890 - Success at last
1894 - Pemberton Road
The Management Committee
Raising the cash
The work expands
The Isolation Hospital
A new hospital - at last
Aid and comfort for the suffering
Perhaps this narrative ought really to have been called the story of Molesey Hospitals, in the plural, for in effect it tells of five separate institutions. A cottage hospital on three different sites, an isolation hospital, and the present hospital since the inception of the National Health Service.
The first neighbourhood cottage hospital in England was established in 1859 in the Surrey village of Cranleigh, and the idea was eagerly taken up in other parts of the kingdom. By the early 1870s cottage hospitals had sprouted all around the district, at Surbiton, Teddington, Wimbledon, and other places. In 1874 a small group of sympathisers in Molesey thought it time that a similar institution was provided for the benefit of people here, and took steps to start the ball rolling in that direction. For if remote rural villages with a thousand souls or less could enjoy the blessings arising from their own hospital, surely the Moleseys, with more than three times that number and expanding at a rapid rate, ought also to be able to provide the community with similar facilities.
These plaintive musings soon came to the ears of the local press and on the 3rd of October in that year the Surrey Comet reported in its Molesey column: "We hear that there is every possibility of a cottage hospital shortly doing its good work". How optimistic that statement must have sounded to our band of hopefuls. A fulfilment of their most sanguine aspirations.
A public meeting was called for the evening of the 23rd of October at St. Mary's schools (now the Adult Education Centre), which adopted unanimously the resolution: "That it is desirable to establish a cottage hospital for the parishes of East and West Molesey". A provisional committee was appointed, complete with officers, and with powers to frame rules and regulations for the conduct of the hospital. Doctor Skimming, whose "indefatigable industry" for the cause was praised, accepted the post of medical officer.
The gathering was told that almost £130 had already been collected, and there were pledges of other contributions to come. More than which, they had had the promise of a house, rent free, which could provide accommodation for patients and staff.
The latter was to be the munificent gift of Lady Harriett Hoste, a resident of Hampton Court Palace, a great granddaughter of Sir Robert Walpole, England's first prime minister, and widow of Captain Sir William Hoste, a protege of Nelson and one of his most brilliant commanders. Who had already shown great generosity to Molesey in providing a house in Manor Road for use as a school and Methodist meeting-place.
It seemed as if the project must certainly succeed - they already had a foundation fund, which promised to increase, they had a potential home, they had considerable enthusiasm. However, they reckoned without the strength of the establishment, the coterie of wealthy property owners who were the real arbiters of power in Victorian Molesey.
The first intimation that things might not go the way the committee hoped was probably when the chairman, the Rev. L.W. Till, received the replies to the letters he was asked to write to some of the more prosperous residents, asking them to accept honorary positions on the committee. (With an eye, no doubt, also to receiving a financial encouragement at the same time).
Luckily one of these replies has survived, that from Francis Jackson Kent, the second largest landed proprietor, with over one hundred acres of Molesey in his possession, and therefore one of the most affluent men in the vicinity. In which, although acknowledging the compliment of being asked, he declined the offer to sit on the cottage hospital committee, "not considering it is required in the parish and that it would be injurious generally to the neighbourhood".
The village now divided into two factions. Those in favour of a cottage hospital, and those against. Prominent among the former were the vicars of St. Mary's and St. Paul's, and the two local doctors, the men who most often met with, and could most readily appreciate, the sufferings of the sick, especially among the poorer sections of the community, the unfortunates who could afford neither to be nursed properly in their own homes, nor to travel to one of the great London hospitals, and whose only other recourse was the union workhouse at Kingston. A degrading spectacle.
The other side consisted mainly of the wealthy property owners. The men who held the purse strings and wielded the power.
Each side canvassed for support, and soon circulars promoting the ideas of one party or the other started to be disseminated around the village.
In a letter to the Surrey Comet, one of the "antis" contended "that the establishment of a hospital here would be detrimental to the town"; and attempted to frighten others into opposing it by saying: "it would be of no possible utility, and might lead to the propagation of infectious diseases". An impression which the editor (who seems to have supported the pro hospital party) quickly refuted by quoting a sentence from one of the promotional leaflets: "It is an essential principle of Cottage Hospitals that neither contagious, infectious, nor incurable diseases be admitted".
However, the fundamental cause of the resistance to the hospital is blatantly exposed by other statements in the same letter: "It would assuredly increase the burthens of this already well taxed locality - If a hospital be allowed to exist in the midst of a respectable population, it seems to require very little forecast in order to realize the baneful effects of such a movement - Who, I ask, would be anxious to take up residence so near a building of this description - It would certainly deteriorate the value of house property all about the neighbourhood".
Herein, of course, lies the key to this well-orchestrated opposition. The thought that a hospital would have a deleterious effect on property values. No concern whatsoever on the help it may bring to their less fortunate fellow creatures.
This hostility from the very people upon whom the committee would have to rely heavily for financial viability was a shattering blow. In the face of which the movement wilted. Within a very short space of time the whole crusade collapsed, and the brave plans to provide Molesey with a cottage hospital were buried for a decade and a half.
Some fifteen years elapsed before another attempt was made to establish a cottage hospital in the Moleseys, and once more a similar pattern was to emerge. Again there was the initial enthusiasm. Again a committee was formed. Again funds were raised. Again the opposition rallied. Again the movement was undermined, and again crumbled beneath the onslaught.
Nevertheless, there were now in Molesey people who were determined that the obstructers should not be allowed to thwart progress for ever. And they came from widely separate ends of the social spectrum.
On the one hand was a noble dame - elderly, aristocratic, and very kindly - in the shape of the Dowager Lady Barrow; and at the other, the people of Molesey themselves, ably led by the friendly societies - the Oddfellows, Foresters, and Buffaloes. Both sides working together for a common cause.
Who, then, was Lady Barrow? This grand lady who, in her eightieth year, had the welfare of the people of Molesey so much in her heart, and the unflinching determination to do something about it. Perhaps we should stop our narrative for a while and take a brief look at her most remarkable life.
Rosamund Hester Elizabeth, widow of Sir George Barrow, second baronet, was born in 1810, the twenty-first child of William Pennell, sometime consul-general in Brazil (Who later lived and died at the house now known as "Green Arden" in Spencer Road). Her eldest sister had been married several years before to a rising politician called John Wilson Croker, but the couple were childless and looked then like continuing so. It was arranged, therefore, between Mrs Croker and her mother, even before the birth, that the child should be handed over immediately to the Crokers to be brought up as their own offspring. To complete the illusion the little girl was given the same name, Rosamund, as her putative mother, and Hester, after Croker's mother. In fact, it was not until after she had grown up that for the first time she was told the full story of her parentage.
John Wilson Croker's career as a politician and statesman advanced rapidly, he became a member of Parliament, was principal secretary to the Admiralty for over twelve years, and appointed a privy councillor. He was an intimate of royalty, and moved in exalted circles. Rosamund (usually known by her pet name "Nony") knew all the great people of the day. As a girl she was twice sent for to play with the little princess who became Queen Victoria.
In 1827 her portrait was painted by Sir Thomas Lawrence. It shows a truly beautiful seventeen-year-old girl, and immediately caused a sensation. At the Royal Academy "men", it was said, "stood before it in a half circle admiring its loveliness in the exhibition: it was all airiness and grace". Prints and copies were made of the picture which were sold by the hundred, bringing wealth to the artist and fame to the sitter. Croker himself said that no portrait of the same size and class had ever produced so great an impression.
The young girl was now feted. She was presented at court, and kissed by two kings. William the fourth, it is said, kissed her twice in succession, "the first time as a king, the second as a man". The Duke of Wellington was also among her admirers.
Wealth, fame, rank, were all hers now simply for the taking, but she was a girl of deep religious convictions. Fearing that in the adulation of her physical beauty she might become vain and her head turned away from spiritual thoughts, she made a vow not to be drawn into the vortex of social frolics. The round of balls and parties which were the whirl of court and aristocratic circles, into which she could easily fall and where without doubt she would have been most welcomed, were not for her. Further she pledged never purposely to look into a mirror for the next two years. A determination to which she adhered faithfully. In later life she averred that it was entirely to the embracement of these principles that her exceeding longevity could be attributed.
Shortly after the painting of the portrait, the family moved to "The Grove" at West Molesey (today, alas, destroyed for ever). From here, on 23rd July 1832, she married George Barrow, the son of Sir John Barrow, a distinguished author and traveller, and one of the founders of the Royal Geographical Society. She bore him eight children.
Towards the end of her life she moved to Kent Road, East Molesey, to a house (now number 17) which was renamed "Ulveston Cottage", after the town in Lancashire where the Barrow family had resided, and which is still dominated by a massive memorial to her father-in-law. This was a smaller but much more suitable home for her old age, than those to which she had previously been accustomed.
It was here in January 1906, in her ninety-seventh year, that she died. Her body was laid in the family grave in West Molesey churchyard. The people of Molesey followed the coffin to its last resting place, and a guard of honour was formed by the charities she had supported - the hospital, the fire brigade, the friendly societies, and church groups. She was described shortly before her death as a "noble woman, whose fine soul was arrayed in rich beauty".
The Dowager Lady Barrow. On her ninetieth birthday.
When the movement to form a cottage hospital foundered once more against the rocks of sectional interests, it was Lady Barrow whose initiative finally succeeded in getting the scheme floated.
If the community was so divided that progress could not be made, it was obvious that only by the determination of individuals would the worthy object be achieved. Lady Barrow, therefore, resolved that with the help of others she would provide that effort.
To this end she gathered together a group of willing workers who had the same interest in view, and who would attend to the day to day running of the hospital and arrange for the collection of funds. Prominent among whom were Doctor Holberton, of "Chetwynd" in Palace Road; Mrs Tatham, wife of the vicar of St. Paul's; and her daughters. Mrs Tatham was very concerned about nursing and at one time arranged classes in her own home to teach the art of caring for the sick.
On the 15th March 1890 the Surrey Comet announced: "The Cottage Hospital scheme for East Molesey having been abandoned by the Committee who had the projection in hand, the same object has been, taken up by Lady Barrow, who will start it as a nurses home assisted by the Misses Tatham. A cottage has been taken in the Manor Road, and the institution will be opened shortly. Subscriptions in money or in kind will be gladly received". The following week the paper apologised for having failed to associate Mrs Tatham's name with this announcement.
The house referred to in Manor Road stood (and in fact still stands as number 19) not far from the Methodist Church, slightly back from, and at an angle to, the road. Here in May 1890 the "East and West Molesey and Hampton Court Cottage Hospital" eventually opened its doors.
Lady Barrow became a familiar figure, as every day she went round from her home in Kent Road to the hospital to visit the patients and breathe words of spiritual comfort. Even though in later years she had to be wheeled round in a bath-chair.
As to raising the funds, this was where the friendly societies came into their own. They had grown up so that working men might cooperate together in mutual self help, to combat the multifarious afflictions which befell the necessitous poor in pre social security days. They had started collecting for the hospital even before the previous inept committee had collapsed. In 1889 they had held a grand church parade, marching through the streets of the village to St. Paul's church, the members rattling their collecting boxes all the way along the route, to gather the pennies of the standers-by. This money had stayed in the bank, but directly the opening of the new hospital had been announced a joint meeting was called, at which it was agreed unanimously that everything that had been collected would be transferred to the funds of that institution. At the same time the sum of five pounds, the result of an effort by a carol party the previous Christmas, would be handed over as well.
This church parade was such a financial success, and so popular, that it was decided to repeat the effort the following year, and it became a regular annual feature of Molesey life for several seasons.
The proceeds of the 1891 parade, amounting to nearly twenty-five pounds, were taken round to Lady Barrow's house by the organisers, and handed over to her ladyship personally. She was so pleased with their exertions, that she forthwith announced that any fully paid up member of any of the lodges would be admitted to the accident ward of the hospital at any time, free of charge, providing it was not fully occupied at the time.
After two years Lady Barrow decided it was time to hand over the reins entirely to others. She had launched the scheme (mainly by stimulating others to take on work they would not otherwise have done).
She was now over eighty, and although mentally alert her physical health was not good. In spite of the "Dismal Jimmies" the hospital was flourishing. Now was the time to turn it into a proper public affair, financed by the community, and run by the community.
In February 1892, therefore, her son-in-law, the Rev. V.B. Smyth, vicar of West Molesey, called a public meeting to put this decision into effect. He said, the hospital had been a great success. In less than two years some seventy patients had been treated, and there was a healthy balance of over two hundred pounds at the bank, with no bills outstanding, but it was thought the time had come when Lady Barrow should be relieved of all responsibility. Although, he said, she would still continue to visit the hospital as often as she could.
A working committee was then appointed, consisting of the incumbents of the three Molesey parishes, the chaplain of Hampton Court Palace, the medical practitioners, and nine lay members, based on a representation of two from each of the Molesey parishes and three from Hampton Court.
Soon after its opening the committee resolved to change the name from Cottage Hospital to Nursing Home. It being said that a number of subscribers, including Dr. Holberton, the medical officer, considered that the name sounded better. Although in 1893 they had a change of heart and reverted back to the name as it originally had been. This reversal may have been due to the fact that they almost lost a legacy of a hundred pounds, which had been left to them under the name of the Cottage Hospital. The executors had challenged that a nursing home was not the same. Luckily the case was won, but the change came soon after.
The first report after the new committee had taken over manifested the faith that the organisers placed on the hospital and the good work of which it was capable: "We desire to call attention to the great value of an institution such as this, where patients are able to obtain good accommodation, properly prepared and suitable food, and last, but by no means least, skilled nursing. Many of the patients treated with success in the Nursing Home could not possible have recovered so completely or quickly in their own homes, and some could not have been treated there at all".
Dr. H. N. Holberton. The first medical officer of Molesey Cottage Hospital.
The cottage in Manor Road was really too small for the good work which was now being carried on and the committee, looking around for more commodious premises, alighted on a house called "Alliance Villa" in Pemberton Road, which was then empty. A lease was arranged, and in October 1894 the hospital moved into its new abode, which was destined to provide its home for the next forty years.
After the move the house in Manor Road reverted to a private dwelling, at first called "Cromwell Cottage", and later "Waverley Cottage". It is now number 19, used as a builder's yard, and much dilapidated.
The new premises at first provided five beds. However in 1897 Tom Tagg, a well-known Thames waterman, boat-builder, and hotelier, passed away, and his friends proposed to raise a monument to his memory, which should be both permanent and useful. At first it was suggested that a lecturn be placed in St. Paul's church, but then the happy idea of endowing a bed in the hospital was mooted and eagerly adopted by the trustees. The accommodation was, therefore, raised to six; and a brass plate was placed over the bed announcing its remembrance of Mr. Tagg. It was stipulated that the endowment would be on the understanding that although generally to be used for all purposes connected with the hospital preference should be given whenever possible to watermen or those deriving their living from the River Thames. Prominent among the list of subscribers to the bed were Richard D'Oyly Carte, of Savoy Opera fame, and Martin Cobbett, the well-known writer.
A cot was added later so that infant patients could also receive attention.
In 1921, after the end of the Kaiser's War, the hospital received a donation of £1,032 from the surplus of the Hampton Court Auxiliary Hospital, which had been started by the British Red Cross and the Order of St. John, at The Old Court House by Hampton Court Green, to nurse wounded soldiers, and was then being wound up. The gift was specifically intended to endow a bed, with the proviso that, as far as possible, it should be reserved for the relatives and dependants of servicemen. An oaken tablet painted with red and black letters was erected in the Board Room to commemorate this grant.
A great aid to patients' comfort was achieved in 1925, when Molesey hospital became the first in Surrey to be completely equipped throughout with a wireless-set at every bedside. This achievement was made possible through the generosity of an anonymous well-wisher, who not only supplied the equipment but installed it himself.
The most momentous event in the history of the hospital whilst it was in Pemberton Road, however, undoubtedly occurred in January 1927, when the owner of the property, a Mrs. Margaret Fuller, died, and left the freehold of the house to the hospital trustees, to form a lasting monument to the remembrance of her late husband, James.
James Fuller, who had died four years earlier, was a long time resident of East Molesey. He had formerly been the licensee of both the Albion and Castle Hotels in Bridge Road. After his retirement the Fullers moved to Surney Villas, 16 Manor Road, which was almost directly opposite the cottage in which the hospital first started, and where daily they would have observed the good work in which it was engaged. Oh! if only all the property owners in the district had been but half as public spirited as Mrs. Fuller, what a vastly different story might then have been told.
By an unusual coincidence Mrs. Fuller died at number 15 Kent Road, the self-same house as that other benefactress of the hospital, the Dowager Lady Barrow, had passed away, and which by then had been turned into a private nursing home, known as "Lorne Lodge".
A bronze plaque enunciating Mrs. Fuller's benevolent gift to the district is now affixed to the wall on the outside of the present hospital.
As has already been stated, the first committee was formed of the local Anglican clergy, the medical practitioners, and nine lay representatives elected at the annual general meeting.
In 1909 the scope was extended in two ways: firstly, by the cooption of the ministers of all the denominations in the area, which meant that the Methodists, Baptists, and Catholics were all represented as of right; and secondly, (a strike for women's lib) the rules were altered to allow ladies to serve, and a number were henceforth elected and performed sterling service.
The committee usually met monthly, mainly to approve the accounts and sign the outgoing cheques, and keep the normal administrative machinery functioning. On very rare occasions not enough members turned up to form a quorum, and the work had to be left to the officers to perform.
The committee minute book covering many years has fortunately been rescued and preserved (mainly due to the efforts of Dr. Humble). It contains some revealing and occasionally amusing sidelights on the working of the hospital. Although one feels at times certain personal undercurrents and disharmonies hinted at but not always fully divulged. Such, for instance, as in 1929, when a number of influential members resigned form the committee; and again at another date when the matron was asked to resign. The full stories of which will never ever be told.
The book commences on the 28th of October 1920, when the members present were: Mr. Marler (in the chair), the Rev. A.G. LeMasurier (vicar of St. Mary's), and messrs Burton, Dobree, Hiscocks, Neilson, and Stevens. The expenses for the month totalled £40 9s. 8d.
The following are among the more interesting items:-
28 December 1922. Mr. Marler spoke as to the good report in pretty nearly every case, of the treatment of the patients and their acknowledgment of the same.
Hours of visiting were fixed at three days a week, Wednesday, Thursday, and Sunday, two to four p.m.
29 March 1923. Miss Thompson, a patient who had been in the hospital made a complaint that she had been given margarine instead of butter. Upon investigation this was found to be not correct.
6 February 1925. A resolution was passed that the present matron be requested to resign, with a month's notice and a bonus of twenty guineas, and a new matron appointed, at a salary of £80, rising to £100, per annum.
The staff in future to consist of matron, nurse or probationer, maid, and cook-general.
13 May 1927. The chairman explained that the reason for the greater cost of running the hospital was principally due to the nature of the cases dealt with, which were of a much more lasting nature, and especially due to the numerous motor accidents which occurred.
31 October 1929. It was reported by Mr. Nielson that there would be motor-cycle races at the residence of Lady Barrow, Grove House, West Molesey, on Sunday 3 November, at 1 p.m., and the members of the committee were asked to give this function their support, as the net proceeds were in support of the hospital. (This Lady Barrow was the wife of the grandson of the Lady Barrow who figured so prominently in the founding of the hospital).
25 October 1937. The chairman reported that the sum of £17 9s. 8d. had been received as a result of Pound Day collections. This was considered very satisfactory as owing to the police regulation there was no street collection. He expressed thanks to the Guides and Scouts for their work in the inclement weather. Goods received amounted to four hundred and twenty-nine pounds in weight. (That is nearly four hundredweight).
As the hospital was, of course, a voluntary organisation, and although patients were charged for treatment according to their means, it relied heavily upon the generosity of contributors for its very existence. The raising of funds made exceptional demands on the time, energy, and determination of the committee and helpers. Many and varied were the devices contrived to prise money out of the people of Molesey. Molesey seems never (except for one or two notable cases) to have been able to attract large donations from wealthy residents, although by jove there were a considerable number of them living here. In 1911, for instance, the report of the committee bewailed: "It is a sad fact that while the poorer classes knew and valued the work of the hospital, as the large number of small subscribers showed, yet many of the well-to-do inhabitants of the district hardly knew there was a hospital in the place, or, if they knew it, it was merely a name to them".
This was a situation far removed from say Weybridge, where any person donating five hundred pounds or more was given the title "Founder", and had their names illuminated on a panel prominently displayed in the entrance hall. And there were many names upon it. Five hundred pounds would have run Molesey Hospital in the early part of the century for almost a year and a half.
We have already seen how the friendly societies organised their annual fund-raising parade around the village. Every year the peregrination assumed a larger, more colourful, and more successful character than the year before. In 1892 it was reported that the procession traversed every road in East Molesey, except Wolsey Road (and that was omitted for no other reason than lack of time). A feat which was accomplished in one and a half hours. It was led by the Molesey Mechanics Band, resplendent in their new uniforms of blue and gold, supported by the Walton Band, in Huzzar outfits, and followed by the Oddfellows, Foresters, Buffaloes, and the slate clubs from the Europa and the Kings Arms, each preceded by their lodge banners carried high; and accompanied throughout by the Molesey Fire Brigade. When the collecting boxes were opened the sum of £35 17s. 4d. was counted, mainly in pennies and halfpennies.
Another effort in the 1890s was arranged mainly by the ladies, who set up a stall to sell fruit, flowers, and vegetables, all of which had been donated from peoples gardens and allotments. The stall was often to be found in the summer months, either outside Hampton Court station or near the Lock, to take advantage of the crowds who on sunny weekends thronged in their thousands to the palace and the riverside.
The organisers of these events racked their brains to devise something new every year to stimulate interest and encourage donations.
Around the turn of the century the Friendly Societies started to run a sports meeting, which proved very popular and continued for many years; and later the church parades were discontinued. First of all the sports were held in the paddock of Hurst Park Racecourse, but were afterwards transferred to the East Molesey Cricket Ground.
In 1907 the Molesey Wheelers Cycle Club introduced a cycle carnival to boost the hospital funds. The spectacle of a cavalcade of gaily decorated bicycles and tricycles parading through the streets was something Molesey villagers had never before beheld. The ingenuity displayed by the riders in embellishing their machines was said to have been "much admired by the spectators", and demands were made to repeat the exhibition the following year. Which indeed it was, and for several following years.
Other devices used to raise money were:- the collecting of silver foil; the annual "Pound Days", when young ladies dressed as nurses went around the district gathering money and goods (supposedly by the pound - hence the name), especially groceries, which kept the hospital's larder well stocked for sometime; and many functions run by individual organisations, such as dances, whist drives, and the like, The profits of which were passed to the hospital's benefit.
In October 1937 the chairman reported that the sum of £17 9s. 8d. had been received in cash as a result of Pound Day collections. This was considered very satisfactory in view of a police regulation that there was to be no street collecting. He expressed thanks to the guides and scouts for their work in the inclement weather. The amount of goods received in kind totalled nearly four hundredweight.
Some of the gifts to the hospital were, to say the least, of a very bizarre nature indeed. In August 1928 the Committee found themselves presented with a donkey, which Mr. Vic Stevens (of Rowe and Stevens, draper and postmaster) undertook to dispose of for the hospital's benefit. He apparently raffled the animal and raised the sum of £18. On another occasion a patient, unable to pay his bill, discharged his debt with one of his prize pigs.
However, during the interwar years the most popular event was undoubtedly the annual carnival. Which started off simply as a means of drawing people to the sports meeting on the cricket ground. Eventually, when athletics became more of a competitive nature and less of a friendly local affair in which everybody competed, especially the children, the carnival took over the main business, and the venue was changed to Cigarette Island. The animated procession of cheerfully decorated floats, horses, and bicycles, and children in fancy dress, marching through the main streets from West Molesey to Hampton Court, being the inducement to draw hundreds to a colourful fete and the crowning by some well-known personality of the carnival queen.
In 1927, when the hospital was having a particular financial struggle, Mr. Christian Nielson, a vigorous worker for the cause over many years, moved in the local council that as a charity the hospital should be relieved of the burden of paying rates. A passionate plea, for which he received virtually no support at all. One councillor commenting "I don't think it is quite fair to make every ratepayer subscribe to the Hospital willy-nilly", and the chairman even suggested that to give public aid by way of rate rebate might do more harm than good by stopping subscriptions from other people.
Nevertheless, in the following year the councillors relented, and on 23 February 1928, Mr. Nielson was able to report to the committee that the U.D.C. had agreed to give a grant to the hospital equal to the amount of the rates chargeable upon the building; and the secretary was instructed to write to the clerk expressing the thanks of the committee.
Hospital Day at East Molesey, 1911.
East Molesey Hospital "Pound Day", 1913.
East Molesey Hospital "Pound Day": "Jimbo", the "Daily Mirror" elephant.
In the first twenty years of the hospital's existence over one thousand one hundred patients had been treated, but the staff and all others concerned were still anxious to do more. The annual report of 1910 in describing the accommodation in Pemberton Road as "small and inadequate and entirely unsatisfactory for important operations", said "It is the ambition of the committee sooner or later to be able to build a new hospital properly equipped in accordance with modern requirements".
This frantic cry was captured by the ear of at least one sympathetic resident, and the following year a very generous offer was made by an anonymous lady to erect a new purpose-built hospital in a different position, on condition that the committee found the site and raised the money to purchase it.
The first location looked at by the committee was a plot in Beauchamp Road, which they were unsuccessful in obtaining. Secondly they were well advanced in negotiations for a piece of land in Vine Road, but were frustrated by the action of local residents who, when they heard of the intention, petitioned the local district council "earnestly protesting against the scheme, which", they said, "would entirely spoil one of the most open and healthy roads in East Molesey, and render it almost intolerable to its present inhabitants", and asked the council to use their influence to prevent "such an injustice". Not that the council in those days had the power to stop it, but they so swayed the owner of the ground that he refused to sell it to the hospital.
After being thwarted yet again with a third potential site the committee gave up the struggle, and unfortunately the offer so liberally proffered had to be declined, much to the chagrin of all concerned with the running of the hospital. The property owners, it seems, were just as prejudiced and just as powerful as they had been thirty years before. They had won once more, and would do so yet again.
Twenty years later the hospital was still in the same situation. In 1930 the inadequacies of the accommodation were again causing grave anxiety. The subject of a new up-to-date hospital came up for discussion once again, and the argument put forward so impressed a sympathetic resident that he immediately offered to contribute a thousand pounds towards the provision of new premises. The committee, so spurred, investigated the matter and found a suitable site in Arnison Road. Unfortunately, before the proposal could be brought to a successful conclusion word leaked out and the residents of the road brought pressure to bear on members of the committee to abandon the project. Once more hostility had its way. Once more it was the ailing sick who suffered.
The report in that year, as in most years, stressed the problem: "Whilst the result of the year's working is satisfactory, the committee would like to impress upon subscribers the necessity of acquiring a more up-to-date hospital as soon as possible, the present premises not being altogether suitable for the valuable work which is being done, and it is hoped that a special effort will be made to increase the capital funds so that this question can be dealt with in the early future".
Four years later the cry was still being re-echoed, at the annual meeting in March 1934 Dr. J.W.M. Humble, the medical officer, made it clear that "Molesey wants either an addition to the present hospital, or a larger building - The hospital has been full since the beginning of the year and there was a waiting list". Mr. W.G. Brown urged that a special appeal to the public should be made to raise the money for a larger hospital.
The next twelve months became the busiest in the whole of the hospital's then history. Five hundred and fifty-nine patients were treated in that little house in one year, and the committee warned that "It is evident that calls on the resources of the hospital will grow; it is unfortunately evident that the hospital cannot accommodate larger numbers and it is imperative that efforts must be made to secure and maintain other premises".
By a stroke of good fortune the next year an opportunity presented itself that was too good to be missed. Owing to the reorganisation of local government the old isolation hospital in High Street, West Molesey, became redundant, and the committee, prompted mostly by Drs. Humble and Bowling, entered into negotiations to purchase the property. Esher Council agreed to sell the building to the Cottage Hospital Trustees for a greatly undervalued price of just over £900. Although not in an ideal situation from an access point of view, it was at least in a position that could not possibly be detrimental to anybody's property value.
Nevertheless, before we discuss the acquirement of the new premises and the move thereto, perhaps we should look at the isolation hospital itself and how it came to be built. A story which has been called "an interesting chapter in the history of the local government of the district", although some people had even harsher views on the subject.
The events which led up to the building of the Isolation Hospital were indeed a sorry tale of mean, miserable, petty-mindedness. A saga which sullied the reputation and lowered the prestige of Molesey in the eyes of many people throughout the land.
The story starts in 1889, when Parliament passed two Acts aimed at controlling the spread of infectious diseases. These two, the Infectious Diseases (Notification) Act and the Infectious Diseases (Prevention) Act, among other things made it obligatory for any person in charge of a patient suffering from certain specified illnesses to notify the fact to the medical officer of health for the locality, and also required the local sanitary authority to take prompt precautionary measures to prevent the spread of the epidemic, by arranging for the complete isolation of infected persons. Although, surprisingly, the legislation contained no stipulation binding the authority to adopt any particular method to obtain the isolation required. It was left entirely to the local people.
At this time the Moleseys were divided under two separate health authorities. West Molesey formed part of the Kingston Rural Sanitary Authority, and as such the parishioners were entitled to use the facilities of an isolation hospital which that body had very wisely erected at Tolworth immediately after the passing of the Act.
East Molesey, on the other hand, was a health authority in its own right, governed by what was known as a local board, and the East Molesey Local Board was a particularly backward and parsimonious body indeed. If they were required to fulfil certain statutory obligations, it was certain they would be done in the cheapest way possible, and if they could be accomplished without spending any money at all - so much the better for that.
From the outset the board rejected any idea of providing a hospital themselves for the isolation of sufferers. Therefore, Mr. F.A. Stringer, the only member who appears to have had any feeling at all for the patients, moved that the necessary steps should be taken to bring the parish into the Tolworth Hospital scheme, and allow East Molesey people to be admitted thereto and benefit like their West Molesey brethren.
The Rural Sanitary Authority replied that East Molesey could be brought in on a like for like rateable value basis, which would have meant a contribution equivalent to a rate of approximately one penny in the pound. This proposal was discussed by the General Purposes Committee, who recommended to the monthly meeting in June 1890, that "the Board ought not to accept so burdensome a proposal". And accept it they did not.
Mr. Stringer, commenting on what he called "this extraordinary deadlock", said it was incumbent upon the Board now to go on to the logical sequence of arranging for hospital accommodation themselves. "They were inflicting a most cruel wrong, without providing any compensating remedy". Needless to say his suggestion was rejected out of hand.
The only backing Mr. Stringer seems to have obtained was from Dr. Skimming, the Medical Officer of Health, and from the Surrey County Council and The Local Government Board, both of which bodies wrote to the East Molesey Board urging them to avail themselves of the powers they possessed, and provide accommodation to isolate infectious cases within the district. However, the Board again decided not to entertain the matter "at the present".
In his report for that year Dr. Skimming stated that there had been two deaths from infectious causes, one from diphtheria and one from scarlet fever, and stressed that "No attempt at isolation could be made in the absence of an isolation hospital".
During 1895 seven people died from notifiable diseases, and Dr. Knox (who had taken over as Medical Officer of Health from Dr. Skimming) lamented that "The want of an isolation hospital is a grave defect in the sanitary administration of the district. I trust that in the near future, the remedy may be supplied, and we may have a proper isolation hospital of our own for the reception of infectious cases".
The next move came in a suggestion from Teddington, that they together with Hampton, Hampton Wick, and East Molesey, should join in forming a joint isolation hospital scheme. This proposal soon ended up with the others, as so much scrap paper in the waste bin. On the same plea - too expensive.
Meanwhile, in an attempt at fulfilling their statutory duty to isolate infectious cases, but to do so without spending any money, the Board put the responsibility back onto the shoulders of the householders themselves to isolate the whole house, and prevent anybody from coming or going in or out until the infection was proved to be clear.
This idea bore down very heavily on the working classes, because the breadwinner could no longer go to work, and in those pre-social security days, when there was no work there was no bread. As well as disease the family were now forced to suffer extreme hardship, even hunger.
To provide some alleviation the Board next moved to permit one member of the household to go to work but to lodge out, this meant that the wage-earner now had to pay for his own external board as well as keep his house going. Another unsatisfactory arrangement. However, to overcome this objection the Board next agreed to make a small allowance to the family for the time of the enforced isolation, on the pretext of employing the parents as nurses to the children.
As soon as the Local Government Board heard of this arrangement a stiff letter was sent to the Board advising them that there was no statutory authority for the payment of compensation in this form and ruled that what they were doing was illegal, and should cease. But the Board was adamant.
At the next annual audit of accounts the district auditor disallowed the payments as unlawful and surcharged the fifteen members of the Board and their clerk who had signed the cheques with the whole of the money which they had illicitly expended. Ultimately, after allowing the recalcitrant Board plenty of time to make proper arrangements, which they signally failed to do, the Government prosecuted the members and the clerk for the recovery of the sums surcharged.
Meanwhile the 1894 Local Government Act had disbanded the old rural sanitary authorities and set up district councils. West Molesey ultimately became united with East Molesey to form a new urban district, and West Molesey residents were no longer qualified to use Tolworth Hospital. A sum of £1,400 was paid to the Molesey Council in settelement of the money West Molesey had contributed in rate payments towards the setting up of the hospital. Which the Government ruled could be used for no other purpose than the provision of isolation hospital accommodation.
Eventually, after considerably more prevarication, the Council agreed to comply with the Local Government Board's wishes, and plans were drawn up for the erection of an isolation hospital for Molesey. The surcharges on the councillors were then remitted, although the whole costs of the action, amounting to about £40, had to be paid by the defendants. In the interim, especially to cater for a particularly virulent outbreak of scarlet fever which occurred, the Council agreed to board the patients out at Tolworth.
The foundation stone of the new hospital was laid by Mr. James Ray, the chairman of the U.D.C., on the 6th of October 1910, and was opened on the 6th of May following; over twenty years after the wrangling had first begun.
One of the most satisfied people who stood on that spot that day must have been Dr. Knox, who had lamented the deficiency of isolation facilities since he had taken over as the district's M.O.H. from his brother in 1898. He now saw the project in fulfilment.
The site chosen was ideal as far as a fever hospital was concerned. When standing on the ground there was not a single house of any description in sight. The architect of the building, or rather buildings, as it consisted of four separate blocks for isolation, was a Mr. Lodge, of the firm of Foster, Lovell, and Lodge, of London.
After having resisted the inevitable for so long and ultimately being forced to comply with the law, the council now swung the other way. They became positively proud of their new acquisition, and patted themselves on the back for having provided it. From being parsimonious they appear to have swayed almost to prodigality.
The land for the hospital, which was originally an orchard (of which some of the trees still remain), cost over £1,000, the buildings nearly £3,500, and with other expenses, including laying a gas main to the Walton Road, brought the total outlay to just over £5,000, or somewhere about £400 per bed.
Thus the Council, which could have joined the original Tolworth scheme for the equivalent of a penny rate, but would not on the ground that it entailed unnecessary expense, now saddled the district for many years with repayments and maintenance costs of over four times that amount. They had themselves had to pay the costs of an expensive legal action, they had spent twenty years in needless and bitter bickering, they had even provoked a scathing attack upon themselves in an editorial article in the Times Newspaper, and they had left a soured atmosphere which took years to eradicate.
However, they did leave a building which was now to prove very useful as a home for the Cottage Hospital.
Under the Surrey Review Order of 1933, East and West Molesey, with Esher and the Dittons and the parishes of Cobham and Stoke d'Abernon were united together to form the new Esher Urban District. With this amalgamation Molesey Isolation Hospital was no longer required, because arrangements were now made to treat all the infectious cases from the combined district at Tolworth, which was expanded specifically to accommodate the extra intake.
The Council, therefore, had a redundant hospital on its hands; and, as we have seen, the organisers of Molesey Cottage Hospital had a long standing ambition to improve their good works in larger and more suitable premises; what more natural, then, than the two should get together to solve their common problem?
The Cottage Hospital had had its hopes raised often enough, only to see them dashed to the ground each time. Even if this possibility looked rosier than the others, the Committee could be forgiven for approaching it with some degree of caution. The site was, indeed, further from the centre of population (as it was then - it has shifted somewhat since) than they would have liked, but taken all round it had much in its favour, and this far outweighed the few disadvantages.
Preliminary negotiations were opened with the Council, who offered to sell the hospital for the amount of money still outstanding on the original loan charges, a sum slightly in excess of nine hundred pounds. This figure was immediately volunteered to the Committee as a free gift by Mr. Harold Wesley, of "The Wilderness", Molesey Park Road, and with this generous bounty, and the approval of the Ministry of Health, agreement was reached and the sale concluded,
Mr. Wesley was an extremely rich man, with interests in several companies, both here and in America, mainly dealing with paper manufacture. Nevertheless, he contributed generously to many good causes in the district.
Whilst living in Manor Road, Thames Ditton, his previous home, he donated the whole of the £1,500 required to build a new headquarters for the Ditton Scout Group. On coming to live at "The Wilderness" he was introduced to the efforts of the Molesey Branch of the Lest We Forget Association, which fostered the welfare of servicemen wounded during the First World War, and not only liberally subscribed to its funds, but every year entertained a large party of disabled soldiers and their nurses in the mansion's extensive grounds alongside the river Mole. A tradition which had been started by Sir William Firth, his predecessor at the house.
He travelled extensively, chiefly across the Atlantic, and it was whilst returning from a business trip to New York on the liner Aquitania in May 1939, that he was suddenly taken ill and died before the ship docked.
The freehold of the premises in Pemberton Road, thanks to Mrs. Fuller's benevolence, was the property of the hospital, and there were no debts outstanding. The Committee were now in a position to sell the house and apply the proceeds to refitting the new building completely with fresh equipment, to the erection of an operating theatre with all modern appliances, and to the construction of covered passageways connecting the separate wards and buildings together.
With the alterations complete the hospital was now available with twenty beds for adults, three for children, four private paying wards, a nurses home, and domestic offices. "It will", it was said, "provide a lasting service to the sick and needy of a rapidly growing district".
The new hospital was due to be opened officially on Saturday 22nd. February 1936, but unfortunately on the preceding Saturday, about four o'clock in the afternoon, after the men who had been working on the alterations had gone home, smoke was observed coming from the roof of the west wing, which was found to be on fire. The Molesey Fire Brigade was quickly summoned, and owing to their prompt turnout the blaze was kept from spreading, and damage was confined to a very small area.
This incident, however, was not enough to stop the opening ceremony from going ahead, and on the appointed day, Lady Firth, the wife of Sir William Firth, unlocked the front door with a golden key. How proud Molesey was on that day, after having gone so long its ambitions for an up-to-date hospital were now fulfilled. The only dampener on the scene was the weather - it poured the whole time.
It was still, of course, a voluntary hospital, and it was now necessary to work even harder to raise the cash to run and maintain the improved services. Molesey people rallied round to support their new acquisition. The biggest fund raiser was undoubtedly the Molesey Carnival, which not only contributed to the hospital, but provided, the district with an annual festival of colour and fun.
Owing to the more efficient use of facilities offered by the new premises, the treasurer was able to report to the annual general meeting held at the hospital on 23 April 1937, after the completion of the first full years work there, "that the weekly cost per patient was much less than formerly and compared very favourably with adjacent districts".
Under the National Health Services Act of 1946, on the "Appointed Day", the 5th. of July 1948, the responsibility for financing and running the nation's hospitals was transferred to the Minister of Health. Molesey Cottage Hospital, along with all the other voluntary hospitals throughout the kingdom, ceased to be dependant upon local fund raising, and the word "Cottage" was dropped from the title.
After the move from Pemberton Road the premises there reverted, to residential accommodation and were turned into three flats; that is until the early hours of Tuesday the 8th. of August 1944 when one of Hitler's flying bombs landed on the house opposite, killing three people, injuring many more, and causing much devastation. The old hospital was so badly damaged that the remains had to be entirely demolished, to be replaced by a new building after the end of the war.
Molesey Hospital. Showing three of the old Isolation Hospital blocks, and the interconnecting corridors constructed to facilitate the use as a cottage hospital.
In March 1920 a meeting was convened at Angle House in Beauchamp Road, the house which is now St. Joseph's Convent, but was then the home of Mrs. Vogel, wife of Harry Vogel, editor of "The People" Newspaper, to publicise the work of an organisation known as "The League of Mercy", and to try and form a branch of that body in Molesey.
The Duchess of Albany, daughter-in-law of Queen Victoria, who presided, informed the meeting that the League had been formed in London in the early part of the century, to try to solve the problem of the increasing demands being made on the comparatively few people who voluntarily maintained hospitals and institutions for the needy, helpless and suffering, and to spread the collection of contributions over as wide a section of the population as possible.
Before the League was started, only 4,000 out of the six million people in London subscribed to the upkeep of hospitals. Through the work of the League the whole population was enabled to have the opportunity and privilege of contributing. "I know", the Duchess said, "that the very poor are wonderfully generous and ever ready to help those who are worse off than themselves".
The ladies who formed the backbone of the League, did much good work in raising funds; and Molesey Hospital on a number of occasions, when things were running badly, made application to them for grants. Pleas to which they seldom seemed to have turned a deaf ear. Even though the donations they could give were comparatively small, they enabled the hospital to keep going.
There was also in Molesey a Ladies Linen Guild, which visited the hospital, assisting the staff with sewing and running repairs to the bed-linen, and giving such aid and comfort to the patients as they could. Later a Hospital Comforts Committee was also formed.
These groups afterwards combined to form the League of Friends of Molesey Hospital, which over the years has performed sterling service in providing many of the extras which help to make the patient's stay in the hospital that much more bearable.
The League of Friends have raised large sums towards, among many other things, the Outpatients Department, a Day Rest Room, wireless and television, therapy and physiotherapy equipment, patient to nurse call system, curtains, furnishings, and Oh! so many more things for the comfort and well-being of both patients and staff.
In a work of this length it has not been possible to expound on all the aspects of Molesey Hospital's history; of all the manifold contrivances employed to gather contributions; or to mention all of the hundreds of men and women who have devoted (and still devote) their time and energies to the welfare of the patients, be they committee members, fundraisers, medical, nursing, or domestic staff. Because they have not been named it should not be thought their efforts are unappreciated.
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