ABSTRACT
In 1924 the Executive Committee discussed the setting up of new ‘areas’. A start was made by constituting an Area Council for Lancashire and Yorkshire with an office in Leeds. Shortly after Broderick settled in York he formed a branch of the Society from the members of a working men’s club he had joined and when he found a secure position for himself at Rowntree’s he started to enlist the firm’s employees, both men and women. In 1927 Davidson established a District Committee at Wolverhampton where he was fortunate in securing the help of E. H. Williams, who proved one of the Society’s staunchest supporters and most active workers. Williams was typical of many of the men who have been drawn into the Hospital movement, intelligent, kindly, generous and public-spirited. Of the surgical officers on the staff of the Hospital between 1940 and 1950 one may be chosen for special mention.
