The Express.
London, England, 1862-09-15 00:00:00

THE TEMPORARY ST. THOMAS'S HOSPITAL.

The late Music Hall at the Surrey-gardens has
been completely adapted for its new purpose of • tempo-
rary hospital, and will be opened to-day for both in and out
patients. The arraugenients which have been made are of •
very complete and satisfactory character, and considering
the shortness of the time which haselapled since the work
commenced the progress made haabeen very remarkable. The
building has been entirely covered in with • circular root of
galvanized iron, and in the interior of the building two
floors have been erected. The ground floor is set apart as
an accident arid casual ward ; and waiting rooms for out
patients, with physicians and surgeons' consulting rooms,
and • very commodious dispensary. The first floor is ap-
propriated for male patients, the secood or upper one for
female patients, the rows of beds for surgical and medical
cases being separated by • partition running down the
centre of each floor. A lift has been provided in
the well of one of the staircases by which patients
and their beds may be mimed, thus obviating the necessity
of ascending the staircases. By this lift also provisions,
clothing, and other necessaries will be supplied. The
kitchen formerly connected with the refreshment depart-
ment of the Music Hell has been converted into • hospital
kitchen, and a covered way has beee constructed, along
which carriages heated with hot water will run upon rails
to convey the food to the ascending lift. The portion of
the building which was used as refreshment rooms has
been fitted up for the staff of nurses in training under
Miss Nightingale, and is fitted with every convenience and
requisite for enabling them to acquire a knowledge of their
useful profession, such as lay figures for teaching the art of
bandaging, and other matters so essential for nurses to be
practically acquainted with. The training establishment is
sapported out of the Nightingale fund, Mr. Whitfield and
Mrs. Wardrupper having been appointed to the responsi-
ble duty of superintending this department. Accommo-
dation is provided for fifteen of these nurses, and for the
superintendent, /dn. Wardrupper. The accommodation
for in-patients is equal to 2.50 beds and each person has an
average of 2,300 cubic feet of air, which is nearly eight times
as much as is required under the provisions of the Poor-law
Act for inmates of union workhouses, 300 cubic feet
being the minimum for a sleeping-room, and 500 THE POOR IN Sr. PANCRa/L—At the weekly
cubic feet where the sleeping and dining room are combined. meetingof the directors of the poor of St. Pancras, a comma-
There is • space of five feet between each bed, so that, in nication was read from the Poor-law Board on the subject
the event of its being necessary, further additions to the of a recent inquest held by Dr. LankeMer on the body of a
number may be made without inconvenience to the attend. poor woman who, it was alleged, had been cruelly thrust
ant. and nurses, or injury to the health of the patients. out of her lodgings, and had died of want. The letter was
Bath-rooms are fitted up on each floor, and rooms for the as follows :—" Poor-law Board, Whitehall, Sept. 4.—Sir,—l
nurses and matrons. The ventilation is abundantly pro- am directed by the Poor-law Board to enclose, for the infer-
vided for, and the beating of the wards will be by matknot the directorial thepoorof the parish of St. Pancras,
ordinary open stoves, the products of combustion being a copy of •• paragraph relative to the inquest recently held in
carried o
therff large iron pipes, which are carried up , the case of Matilda Martin, late of Zl, Tottenham-place,
through roof. The flue museum and library are Tottenham Court-road. The boarddirect me to request that
located in one of the temporary buildings on the grounds ; they may be furnished with any observations which the
and the anatomical school, dissect* rums, and theatre directors may wish to offer on the statement contained in
occupy a building neer the edge of the ornamental . the paragraph referred to. The board also direct me to
lake. A microscopic room ie attached to this latter , request that the direetors will be good enough to obtain
ing. The water will be allowed to remain in the lake, due and forward to the board the explanation of Mr. Saddler,
provision being made for keeping up a continuous supply ; relieving officer, of the allegations affecting his conduct in
and the gardens, keep up in good order, will form an agree- the case.—l am, sir, your obedient servant, C. GILPIN,
able promenade for such of the convalescent patienta as it Secretary." After some discussion, it was determined to
may be deemed advisable to retain in the hospital. The appoint a committee to investigate the ease ; and • reply
verandahs in the upper wards will in warm weather also was written to the Poor-law Board, stating that the
form • pleasant and healthy lounge for patients. The pro- directors bad the matter under their consideration, and that
party, taken temporarily by the governors of the hospital, so soon as they had completed it their report should be for-
includes not only that which in known as the Surrey warded.
Gardens and bullings, but also the whole of the property FIRE IN HoGENT-irrsitsr. —Between the hours of
adjoining known as the Manor Haase, and the tea gardens twelve and one o'clock yesterday morning the neighbour-
attached to it. The total area is about sixteen acres. hood was thrown into a state of alarmlby the sudden out-
The staff of the hospital provided for on the prosaism break of • fire in the upper portion of the premises No. 70,
includes Mrs. Wardrupper and her band of mines Regentatreet, in the occupation of M. Thierry, French
already mentioned, two house surgeons, a dresser, an as- perfumer and hairdresser. The police constable on the beat
natant apothecary, acid resident acoooeheur. In the garden discovered the fire by perceiving flames and smoke issuing
front are placed the two statues which formerly stood in from the third-floor windows. He at once gave the
the open court of St. Thomas's Hospital, Edward the Sixth alarm, and messengers were despatched for the engines.
(the founder of the charity), and Sir Robert Clayton one of Before their arrival the flames had seized upon the
its early presidents and most munificent benefacton. The top or fourth floor of the house, sad had also penetrated
term for which the moperty base been taken is two years.' into the seoond floor. A good supply of water being at hand
with power to extend for a farther period of six months, if the engines were speedily set to work, and in about half An-
il, should be considered necessary to have such an extension hour succeeded in arresting the further progress of the tire,
of time. Nothing has, of course, yet been done as to the but not before the mooed, third, and fourth BOOTS of the
selection of the permanent site of the hospital, and it would house, with the whole of their contents, were totally de-
be difficult to find so suitable an area within • °messiest stroyed. The shop and first floor were also partially de-
distance of the crowded parte of the metropolia. The great stroyed, and the furniture and stock greatly damaged.
drawback to the selection of the present site is the indiffe- The premises were listed up in • very costly and gawk*
rent quality of the approaches, the streets leading to it style, and filled with valuable furniture, and the loss willibe
being narrow and inconvenient. The works connected with hoary. Several of the inmates who had retired b poi is
the fitting of the building, and adapting it to its present the upper part of the premises owed their esfstf to Hs
use, have been carried out under the direction of Mr. Dune, fire escape, which was on the spot within • few adds d
the surveyor to the governors of the charity. he outbreak. The cause of the tire is unkoows, bat it b
byroad to have originated in one of the bedrooms.
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Stephen Joseph Meany, charged with obtaining goode,&o.,
at the International Exbibitiou as • representative of the
Liverpool press, coder false pretences, was brought up for
final ex.inunation, and the depositions takes at the previous
examinations having bees read over, Yr. Dayman committed
him for trial at the next October Iliddkeez Sessions.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's
atoomor Haddington left Southampton on Satar&y for
India, laden with it pocket machinary.