1815—JUNE 30—The order, limiting the number of patients, rescinded, and the subscribers permitted to recommend two patients for each guinea subscribed, as was the case previously. The medical officers were requested to invite the rest of the faculty in Worcester to witness all the more important operations. 1815—NOVEMBER 6—Election of surgeon: the office being vacant by the retirement of Mr. Pennel Cole, Lord Somers proposed Mr. Thomas Stephenson, who was seconded by Lord Beauchamp; Mr. Josiah Palmer proposed Mr. J. P. Sheppard, seconded by Mr. Watson, Stourport; Hon. and Rev. W. Jenkinson proposed Mr. Dangerfield, seconded by Dr. Cameron. The result of the ballot showed for Mr. Stephenson, 335 votes; for Mr. Sheppard, 238; and for Mr. Dangerfield, 135. The total polled was thus 708, or very nearly the then average number of subscribers. 1815—DECEMBER 29—Mr. Herbert Cole (son of Mr. Pennel Cole, for thirty years one of the surgeons to the Worcester Infirmary) unanimously elected as house surgeon of the institution in the place of Mr. Charles Hastings, resigned. 1816—JANUARY—Sir William Smith, Bart., furnished the matron’s rooms at his own cost. 1816—JULY 29—Dr. Lewis Evans elected a physician in the room of Dr. Cameron, resigned. 1818—APRIL 20—At a large meeting of the governors, Dr. Philip W. Wilson brought forward certain charges against his brother officers of the medical staff, as to an operation which he alleged had been improperly performed, but the charges were dismissed by the governors. 1818—APRIL 24—Dr. Philip W. Wilson retired from his post, as physician, avowedly on the ground that his brother physicians and surgeons constantly opposed the admission of others of the profession to witness the operations they performed. Dr. Wilson’s letter to the public was replied to by Mr. J. H. Savigny, who thought it undesirable that infirmaries should be turned into theatres for display. 1818—OCTOBER 2—Ordered that, if the income arising from subscriptions and funded property is insufficient to keep open two additional wards, then first fitted up, a sum, not exceeding £200 annually, should be appropriated for that purpose from such legacies as should be left to the charity, and not specially directed to be vested in the funds. 1818—NOVEMBER 2—Jonas Malden, M.D., and Charles Hastings, M.D., were appointed physicians in the place of Drs. Philip W. Wilson, and Louis Evans, resigned. 1819—FEBRUARY 15—J. P. Sheppard, Esq., elected surgeon in the room of Mr. Stephenson, resigned. 1819—Dispute amongst the medical men as to the treatment of surgical and medical cases. 1819—APRIL—J. H. Savigny, Esq., took the office of secretary _pro. tem._, in the place of Mr. Jackson, resigned. 1819—OCTOBER 29—Mr. Matthew Pierpoint appointed surgeon in the room of Mr. Sandford, who resigned after twenty-seven years of most useful service to this institution. Mr. Pierpoint was proposed by Lord Deerhurst, and seconded by Mr. Sandford himself.