ABSTRACT
A crisis had been reached which might well have closed the Hospital and destroyed the Society. When Fisher was faced with the simultaneous resignations of four doctors action had to be prompt. In March, 1919, Ambrose Woodall received his demobilisation papers and returned to London. He declined the offer of a surgical post at the Shepherd’s Bush Orthopaedic Centre and in April took work under the Ministry of Pensions at the Medical Centre in Conduit Street. Woodall crossed the threshold of the Manor House on 19th September, 1919, expecting to re-cross it at no distant date in the reverse direction. His first impressions of the Hospital were unfavourable. Some work has to be done in all offices and in the office of the Manor House Hospital it was done by Nash, the Accountant and Pantling, the Assistant Secretary. Pantling had had a good public-school upbringing and had gained experience of hospital administration at the Royal Northern Hospital.
