Henry Charles Burdett (1847–1920): Outstanding Hospital Administrator,Successful Secretary of the Seamen's Hospital Society,and Notable Philanthropist

Abstract

Keywords

hospital secretary Queen's Hospital Birmingham Seamen's Hospital Society voluntary hospitals Royal National Pension Fund for Nurses medical administration King Edward VII's Hospital Fund for London

Get full access to this article

View all access options for this article.

References

Anonymous. The Seamen's Hospital and Mr. Burdett. BMJ 1881; i: 284

Anonymous. Presentations. BMJ 1881; i: 747

Anonymous. The Hospital Sunday Fund. The Times, 9 June 1896: 14

Obituary. Sir Henry Burdett, K.C.B, K.C.V.O. Lancet 1920; i: 1029–30

Obituary. Sir Henry Burdett, K.C.B., K.C.V.O. BMJ 1920; i: 657

Anonymous. Death of Sir Henry Burdett: expert in hospital work. The Times, 30 April 1920: 9

Under the Patronage of Her Majesty. An Account of the Origin and Progress of the Seamen's Hospital Society, for Sick and Diseased Seamen of All Nations, Greenwich, S.E. (late Dreadnought). Supported by Voluntary Contributions. Established 1821, Incorporated 1833. London: E G Berryman & Sons Ltd, 1875: 21

Supported by Voluntary Contributions. The Seamen's Hospital Society (late “Dreadnought”), Greenwich. Established 1821. Incorporated 1833. Free to Seamen of All Nations. Sixtieth Annual Report, from January 1st to December 31st 1880. London: E G Berryman & Sons Ltd, 1881: 14–16

Burdett

. Prince, Princess and People: An Account of the Social Progress and Development of Our Own Times, as Illustrated by the Public Life and Work of Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, 1863–1889. London: Longmans & Co., 1895: 400

10.

Moore

Sir Henry Burdett: Forgotten Founder of Modern Hospital Management. Unpublished dissertation, accepted by the Faculty of the History and Philosophy of Medicine and Pharmacy of the Society of Apothecaries of London, 1999: 23

11.

Funerals. Sir Henry Burdett, The Times, 1 May 1920: 17

12.

The Seamen's Hospital Society, Incorporated by Act of Parliament, 3° Gul. IV., Cap. IX. “Dreadnought”, Greenwich. Established 1821. Supported by Voluntary Contributions, and Free to Wounded, Sick or Injured Sailors. One Hundreth Annual Report, from January 1st to December 31st, 1920. London: E G Berryman & Sons Ltd, 1921: 15–16

13.

Anonymous. Sick sailors. Lancet 1878; i: 287–8

14.

Burdett

. The period and influence of infection. Lancet 1880; ii: 596

15.

Burdett

. The period and influence of infection. BMJ 1880; ii: 609

16.

Burdett

. Small-pox cases and general hospitals. Lancet 1879; ii: 105–6

17.

Burdett

. Small-pox cases and general hospitals. Lancet 1879; ii: 783

18.

Burdett

. Hospital finance. BMJ 1878; i: 319–20

19.

Burdett

. Public support of hospitals. Lancet 1877; i: 482

20.

Burdett

. Public support of hospitals. BMJ 1877; i: 405–6

21.

Anonymous. Association for the Promotion of Social Science. BMJ 1881; ii: 645–6

22.

Anonymous. Reviews and notices of books. Lancet 1882; i: 612–13

23.

Anonymous. Hospitals and the state: hospital income, expenditure, and nursing. BMJ 1882; ii: 94

24.

Burdett

. Hospitals and the state. Lancet 1882; i: 673

25.

The reviewer. Hospitals and the state. Lancet 1882; i: 719

26.

Burdett

. Hospitals and the state. Lancet 1882; i: 810

27.

Burdett

. Out-patients' medical relief. BMJ 1875; i: 495–6

28.

Burdett

. A new departure for the medical profession. BMJ 1879; i: 800

29.

Burdett

. Time nihil. Lancet 1879; i: 283

30.

Richardson

, Ed. English Hospitals 1660–1948: A Survey of Their Architecture and Design. Swindon: Royal Commision on the Historical Monuments of England, 1998: 5 44–53

31.

Burdett

. The Cottage Hospital. Its Origin, Progress, Management and Work with an Alphabetical List of Every Cottage Hospital at Present Opened, and a Chapter on Hospitalism in Cottage Hospital Practice. London: J & A Churchill, 1877: 272

32.

Burdett

. Cottage Hospitals: General, Fever, and Convalescent. Their Progress, Management, and Work in Great Britain and Ireland, and the United States of America with an Alphabetical List of Every Cottage Hospital at Present Opened. London: Scientific Press, 1896: Vol. II, p. 379

33.

Anonymous. The Cottage Hospital, its origin, progress, management and work: with an alphabetical list of every cottage hospital, and a chapter on hospitalism in cottage hospital practice. BMJ 1877; ii: 414–15

34.

Burdett

. Hospitalism in cottage hospital practice, in relation to Sir James Simpson's theory. BMJ 1877; i: 351–2

35.

Anonymous. The relative mortality, after amputation of limbs, of large and small hospitals, and the influence of the antiseptic (Listerian) system upon such mortality, by Burdett HC. BMJ 1882; i: 822–3

36.

Burdett

. Mortality statistics in large and small hospitals. Lancet 1882; i: 938

37.

Burdett

. Children's hospitals. BMJ 1877; i: 670

38.

Anonymous. Reviews and notices of books. Cottage Hospitals By H.C. Burdett. Second Edition. London: J & A Churchill, 1880. Lancet 1880; ii: 944

39.

Burdett

. Cottage hospitals. Lancet 1881; i: 484

40.

Burdett

. Cottage hospitals. Lancet 1882; ii: 332–3

41.

Burdett

. Cottage hospitals. BMJ 1882; ii: 391

42.

Burdett

. Home hospitals: their scope, object and management. BMJ 1877; ii: 243–5

43.

Burdett

. Medical hotels. Lancet 1882; i: 1053–4

44.

Burdett

. Dr. Boyd Mushet's motion. BMJ 1878; ii: 158–9

45.

Burdett

. Pay Hospitals and Paying Wards Throughout the World. Facts in Support of a Re-arrangement of the English System of Medical Relief. London: J & A Churchill, 1879: 176

46.

Burdett

. The Uniform System of Accounts for Hospitals and Public Institutions, Orphanages, Missionary Societies, Homes, Co-operations and All Classes of Institutions with Special Forms of Account, Complete Sets of Books, Certain Suggested Checks Upon Expenditure, Forms of Tender, and Other Aids to Economy Together with an Index of Classification Whereby Every Item of Expenditure May be Dealt with Under Identical Heads by Every Group of Institutions, 4th edn. London: Scientific Press Ltd, 1916: 128

47.

Anonymous. Reviews and notices: Pay-hospitals and paying-wards throughtout the world: facts in support of a rearrangement of the English system of medical relief. BMJ 1880; i: 132–3

48.

Burdett

. Hospital abuse. BMJ 1880; i: 187

49.

Burdett

. London hospitals and paying patients. The Times, 29 March 1902: 5

50.

Burdett

. Self-supporting hospitals and provident dispensaries. BMJ 1879; ii: 876

51.

Burdett

. The London Hospital. BMJ 1879; i: 647

52.

Burdett

. The dispute at Guy's Hospital. Lancet 1880; ii: 193–4

53.

Burdett

. The Middlesex Hospital. BMJ 1881; i: 448

54.

Anonymous. London hospitals' straits. Deficit of £200,000. Work of King Edward's Fund. The Times, 1 May 1920: 6

55.

Anonymous. Dublin Royal Sanitary Commision. BMJ 1879; ii: 632–4

56.

Abel-Smith

A History of the Nursing Profession. London: Heinemann, 1960: 290

57.

Burdett

. Hospitals and Asylums of the World: Their Origin, History, Construction, Administration, Management and Legislation; With Plans of the Chief Medical Institutions Accurately Drawn to a Uniform Scale, in Addition to Those of All the Hospitals of London in the Jubilee Year of Queen Victoria's Reign. London: J & A Churchill 1891, 1893: 1–4, 701, 348, 944, 463

58.

Burdett

, Ed. How to Become a Nurse. The Nursing Profession; How and Where to Train. Being a Guide for Trained Nurses in Their Work and to Training for the Profession of a Nurse, With Particulars of Nurse Training Schools in the United Kingdom and Abroad and an Outline of the Principal Laws affecting Nurses, etc. London: Scientific Press Ltd, 1899: 463

59.

Maggs

Nursing's forgotten hero. Nursing Times 1987; 83 (36): 33–5

60.

Maggs

Three letters by Mrs Wardroper, matron of St Thomas' Hospital, London, between 1854 and 1887. History of Nursing Group of the Royal College of Nursing Bulletin 1987; 2 (1): 22–36

61.

Maggs

Sir Henry Burdett and the RNPFN. Lampada 1987; 1 (11): 12–14

62.

Maggs

Ethel Manson and Henry Burdett: two great minds not thinking alike. History of Nursing Group of the Royal College of Nursing Bulletin 1989; 2 (8): 1–5

63.

Burdett

, Ed. Portfolio of Plans of British Colonial, American and Foreign Hospitals, Convalescent Institutions, Nurses' Homes and Medical School Buildings. London: J & A Churchill, 1893: 112

64.

Burdett

. Hints in Sickness: Where to Go and What to Do. London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1883: 260

65.

Burdett

. Helps to Health: The Habitation, the Nursery, the School-room, and the Person, With a Chapter on Pleasure and Health Resorts. London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1885: 273

66.

Burdett

, Ed. Burdett's Hospital Annual 1890. Containing a Review of the Position and Requirements of the Voluntary Charities, and an Exhaustive Record of Hospital Work for the Year. It Will Also be Found to Be The Most Useful and Reliable Guide to British and Colonial Hospitals, Dispensaries, Nursing and Convalescent Institutions, and Asylums. London: The Hospital (Limited), 1890: 344

67.

Burdett

. Burdett's Hospitals and Charities 1897. Being the Year Book of Philanthropy. Containing a Review of the Position and Requirements, and Chapters on the Management, Revenue and Cost of the Charities. An Exhaustive Record of Hospital Work for the Year. It Will also be Found to be the Most Useful and Reliable Guide to British, American, and Colonial Hospitals and Asylums, Medical Schools and Colleges, Religious and Benevolent Institutions, Dispensaries, Nursing and Convalescent Institutions. London: Scientific Press Ltd, 1897: 1019

68.

Anonymous. Notes on books. Annuals. Burdett's Hospitals and Charities. BMJ 1920; i: 49

69.

Anonymous. Burdett

Henry

Sir . In: Who Was Who, 1916–1928, Vol. 2. London: A&C Black, 1947: 146–7

70.

Anonymous. Notes on books. Burdett's Official Intelligence. BMJ 1882; i: 194

71.

Anonymous. Sir Henry Burdett. Hospital 1920; 68: 129–30

72.

Stancliffe

JCG

. Cottage hospitals. The Times, 11 February 2000: 25

73.

Schumacher

. Small is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as if People Mattered. London: Blond and Briggs, 1973: 288