[C. Hubert Bond] to R.M. Clark, 25th June 1923.- Correspondence Details
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Sent From (Definite): Sir Charles Hubert BondSent To (Definite): Ronald Murray ClarkDate: 25 Jun 1923
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Sent fromSir Charles Hubert Bond
25 Jun 1923
Description:‘Dear Dr. Clark,
I am not sure that I have yet even acknowledged your letter of the 13th instant, but if not, in doing so now, please accept my warm thanks for the kindly full information you have given us as to the treatment at Whittingham of G.P.I. by malaria. Your letter has been most helpful to me in preparing for my colleagues a memorandum, and I need not say that I have made it clear whence my information as to details, etc, has been obtained. In this connection, have you any objection to our freely using your letter at other institutions where they want to give the remedy a trial, or would you prefer the Superintendent to be referred to you?
We hope you will kindly keep us closely posted as to what is going on in this matter at your institution and as to its results. Indeed, if you would be so good as to give us the names of the patients so treated, we could note the fact in our files and can thus ourselves, to some extent, watch results.
I have been asked to suggest for your considerations, and to express the opinion of my colleagues, that it is probably early days to assume consent of the relatives and that, if it si not actually acked, it would be a desirable precaution to acquaint them of what is proposed, giving time for them to send in an objection. Indeed, should good results become much more certain, it may even then be desirable because of the fact that the patients are under detention and one is actually inoculating them with a disease which is occasionally swiftly fatal – in order to protect yourself and your Committee from the unpleasantness of an action at law.
We should like in our 1924 Annual Report to refer more fully to this line of treatment and should be very glad, should you be willing, if you could have ready for us as early as convenient in January an account of this work at Whittingham up to the end of 1923, for inclusion in the Board’s Supplement and, as I have indicated, for special reference in the Report itself.
I am,
Sincerely yours,
[C. Hubert Bond.]’
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Sent toRonald Murray Clark
25 Jun 1923
Description:‘Dear Dr. Clark,
I am not sure that I have yet even acknowledged your letter of the 13th instant, but if not, in doing so now, please accept my warm thanks for the kindly full information you have given us as to the treatment at Whittingham of G.P.I. by malaria. Your letter has been most helpful to me in preparing for my colleagues a memorandum, and I need not say that I have made it clear whence my information as to details, etc, has been obtained. In this connection, have you any objection to our freely using your letter at other institutions where they want to give the remedy a trial, or would you prefer the Superintendent to be referred to you?
We hope you will kindly keep us closely posted as to what is going on in this matter at your institution and as to its results. Indeed, if you would be so good as to give us the names of the patients so treated, we could note the fact in our files and can thus ourselves, to some extent, watch results.
I have been asked to suggest for your considerations, and to express the opinion of my colleagues, that it is probably early days to assume consent of the relatives and that, if it si not actually acked, it would be a desirable precaution to acquaint them of what is proposed, giving time for them to send in an objection. Indeed, should good results become much more certain, it may even then be desirable because of the fact that the patients are under detention and one is actually inoculating them with a disease which is occasionally swiftly fatal – in order to protect yourself and your Committee from the unpleasantness of an action at law.
We should like in our 1924 Annual Report to refer more fully to this line of treatment and should be very glad, should you be willing, if you could have ready for us as early as convenient in January an account of this work at Whittingham up to the end of 1923, for inclusion in the Board’s Supplement and, as I have indicated, for special reference in the Report itself.
I am,
Sincerely yours,
[C. Hubert Bond.]’
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