HOSPITAL SUNDAY. On one Sunday in the year it is the practice for churches of almost every denomination in London and throughout the provinces to have special collections for the support of the hospitals of the country. In London the movement originated in 1873; Aberdeen claims to have begun the practice in 1764.
See ANTISEPTICS, DISINFECTANTS, GERM, HYGIENE, INFECTION, MEDICINE, NURSING, PYEMIA, SURGERY; Burdett, Hospitals and Asylums of the World (4 vols. 1893); Billings and Hurd, Hospitals, Dispensaries, and Nursing (1895); Mouat and Snell, Hospital Construction and Management (1884); Clifford Smith on Administration of Hospitals (1863); Douglas Galton, Construction of Hospitals (1870), and Healthy Hospitals (1893); Wylie, Hospitals (New York, 1877); the present writer's Notes on Hospitals (new ed. 1863), and Lying-in Institutions (1871); and such reports as those of the Commissions on the Sanitary Condition of Barracks and Hospitals (1863), on Regulations affecting the Sanitary Condition of the Army and Organisation of Hospitals (1858), and on Smallpox and Fever Hospitals (1882).