The Express.
London, England, 1847-04-10 00:00:00

THE
MENDICITY SOCIETY_
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exiely anemia Its natant Ask The Mew hest Irk kneed.
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that during the pet week M eras wire weird st the~seare
4, about 110 at the rain, sal sleet Mamas awl elditthath yht
Lerma : TAO meals were stree either the name perteL
ere receirsd'hy the Treaearer, at Newt B
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sethetar, IS, Lthsered.eheet, 6i error; at the
leshlsebeens et thersss. Drummed, Chisthe.eroes ; Werra Far-
quhar sad Oa, et. lastetherreet ; owl Mt 3. W. Lut.thek and Ce.,
ansiota-houreatreet, aim at Mows. Hubbard and the. Ptoth.
dilly; and Mr Nisbet. Bereersatreet.

cm MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE QUEEN.
-TILE QUEEN DOWAGER, AND THE DUCHESS
_OE KENT.

This 'agitation receives 100feetaleX,..irho are instructed in domes-
tic duties, and in the truths sad obligations of Christianity, and
trained in industrious habits. It. principal mesas of mimeo is de-
rived from the employment of the inmates in meshing and needle-
work ; the amount mined during the past year use £1,150 do. ltd.
The committee are sorry to sold that the annual setecriptiens have
diminished move than the income from the indestry of the inmates
has inereseed ; sod that they are at the present time meth in sled of
funds to meet the huge expenditure occasioned by the higher mime of
Contribution' are received by the Trennuer, W. A.
ksailifftatasi•OLerms.....Licare, Fliftlinet;

HOSPITAL, supp
Contributions.

voluntary

E.LU. ADOLPIEN FREDERICK, Duke of

Ills Oraor the Lard ArchtiliWol t Rev. the Lord Bishop sf
Ointerbury Winchestt
Hln Gnus the Duke of Wellington Right lion. Lord Ashburton
The Most Noble the Mantua of Sir .I. IL Polly. Bart.
Bristol air .I. fall. K.C.H.
The Night Hon. Viscount Beres. W. Thompson, Enq., Y.P.
ford C.O. Turner, Esq.
Bight Hon. end Right Arr. the W. Davis, End.
Lord Bishop of London W. Cotton, Fp.
Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of
LlAndeb

Banbury, Esq.
CHAIILIIAN Sr TUB 110132 COICIIITIBI.
Sir Edward North &WOO, Bart.
The ANNIVERSARY FESTIVAL of this Charity will be held on
THURSDAY, the 22nd of April, whose Sermon will be preached inthe
Chapel of the llmpital, at Throe o'clock predict', by the Right Rae.
Samuel Wilberforce, D.D., Lord Bishop of Oxford.
An appropriate Anthem will he sung by Mr. Francis and other
Vicars Choral of St. Paul's CathedraL
The goierners and friends of the Charity will afterward, dine at the
LONDON TAVERN, Bishopsgatnetrant, at six o'clock preenely.
His /Myst Highness the DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE in the
rinseal roc THE ONE Ilrnepaaa AND 6.Z1171.
John Alleard, Esq. Vincent Nieholl. Peg,
Archibald Billing, M.D. Lawrence Philli Esq.
James Boyd, Erq. Philip geloenona,Plzr
Charles Butter, Eaq. Joeeph Henry Schr , Eq.
Jceepti Dolmen, Esq. John Taylor. Eaq.
'math= Hopkinson, Esq. I David Weildington, Esq.
Edward Ind, FAci. Col. Thomas Wend, H.
Tickets of admission to the chapel for the Governors and their
Mends (gratis), and for the teem (One Guinea each), may be had of
the Stewards ; Secretary at the hospital ; and at the Leaden Tavern.
Children under 7 years of age will sot be admitted into the ehapeL
Account of Patients admitted during the lest year.
Accidents, 2,357 ,• entre mess, 337—received without
the recommeneLition of • gorernor 3,714
Other in-p itients, admitted during the year
Out-patients, ditto
Total of Patients in the year ending 31st Dec., 1816 50,833
SPECIAL ADDRESS.
The peceent cnrelition of the London Heaping betty[ such as to de-
mand the very retinas consideration of the Governors at large, their
attention is most muneetly requmted to the following statement,
which is laid before them and the public, in the hope that eornethlng
may be effected towards placing the financial concerns of the hospital
upon • more Litisfacter7 basis.
The filed income of the London Hospital was, fur the year 1845,
310,159—0 r less than at any one period daring the ten years pre-
ceding • while, on the other hand, during the same period, the tinse-
-1 ler of Paola bad increased from 11,928 to 19,110 per annum, being
Oa lIMMOIM of upwards of 7,060, or mote than half the total number
has par 1636.•
In 1836. In 1845.
The total of in-patients was
„ out-patients 9,113 ... 15,465
Totals

19,111

from which It asp that thereare now annually swum roodated in
the wards of Os Wipthii I.lllllhopethists more than in the year 1836.
It should be olthrned, thresseilthlithca of any are into the wards
is a proof of its snare thatnelnr, (am wider premed circumstances,
such only are .thatttea..... boom%) he it le to the elate of met'
dents more particularly, 11q of them rad tharful and appalling In
their nature, and all Omomag the Ma expensive treatment, that
we must attribute the imp Inerree of admirior just re-
ferred to.
In 1836 the number of accident ores admitted into the
wards during the year was 1,267
In 184$ they amounted to
being an Maur of 764 in the number at thsidsnt ears In our year
admitted into the hour. all of them, as Ord, rated, Involving
extra expense, and requiring generally the mot nutritious and atimu.
biting diet, and peculiar care and attendance.
We have thus seen that in ten yearn the number of rodents was
increased by about 7,009 per annum, and that of thin number no lees
than 600 per annum are admitted in-patients, and that nearly the
whole of there mast be considered eases of accident—viz., the mast
expensive cases; but there is a further point which cannot be over-
looked. Increased accommodation having been provided for in-pa-
tients, by the addition to the east wing of the hospital (by means of
the fund raised at the Centenary Festival, to 1640), it was soon found
necessary to enlaite the permanent working staff of the eettalbsli-
meat ; and this enlargement (as comprised In the subjoined statement)
was of no trifling charactert
It has been already shown, that a decrease of the fixed income (that
Moue which can alone be depended on for the maintenance of the
hospital, took plaoe in the ten yens, from 1830 to 143 ; but It re-
mains to be stated, that the whole income of the institution, compris-
ing donations, benefactions, legacies, and every crud source of
revenue, was also lees In 164$ than in 1636, and that in that period
the funded property of the be apital has been decreased by sales of
stock to the amount of more than £4,000. During the same period,
however, the number of patient.. as we hare seen, 1155 Increased be-
yond precedent—the increase of patients had brought with it an
Immense increase of the building and household—and there was also
the great annual expellee of supporting this calamine addition to the
establishment.
The question then arises—with all these demands upon the funds
of the hospital on the one aide. and a decreased income on the other,
how has the charity been eled thus long to maintain its position t
Simply, by more strict economy—fly a mere careful and rigid super-
vision to meet the Kerning notharam of the times.
To prove the truth of this, let us return once more to fasts :
In 146 the total expenditure was £14,133 9 9
In 1843 It was only 14,746 11 8
being an increase of outlay amounting to about EOOO to meet an th-
erefore of patients amounting to more than 7,000!
But with all this, there is still a deficiency. The income of the
hospital does not equal its expenditure.
In 1838 the total income was £15,847 16 7
In 1845 it was
Prime exertion. Ana:lndividual liberality—the munificent dorm-
, roes and untiring nod of those more intimately connected with
I the institution—of those ho not oily intrenth largely upo deta
ils
private funds, but devote much of their time to the working
of the hospital—the personal generosity and disinterested labours of
these gentlemen fill up, In part, the great deficiency—they do their
thwart, but they cannot do all. The tide of population moue on too
' strongly for individual efforts—there la no bound to the mighty
prostrate of that commerce which congregates mankind in mars,
producing at the some time danger and disease—the increase of
railroads (giving else to frequent amides:its, both during their con.
@auction and when in operaticn)—the building of factories,—but
above all (in the case of this theatution in particular), the neigh-
bourhood of the river, with its uterine docka and cornmersiMl
ship-yards all these mance to that enormous total of dream and
casualty, to which it foils peculiarly upon this establishment to
minister relief. Bat we must not to content with arguments. Let
as hare recourse again to facts :
The total amber of I.patianta admitted during 1643 we
have sun to be
And that at these, the accidents amounted to no les
than. 2,031
But to ease we must aho add the eons arms, ad-
mitted for the Immediate proservation of Wb,
without recommendation, and in the same sr.
nee sersidents, which amounted to Sad
Making in all . 2,339
or assay e1..4b1.60t the weer .1.1.11;:i ;4:Wei& mastma • that
le (in ether rods), two-Muds et the heoplima re unwire esti;ely to
the erre et the public,. sad ris tile we have deem the mainly
the Weft andelerearra Or le the
be pommea of the
berital, vie der* oarglinto be ea peer, emtheed alone
reseerst
her re serer rendire show rehered I e=le
slip re are dorm& upon re Iris et the • rd
threhee, foto rose, erhe her the roe =We deers dumd-
um et Ser wealth, that we err rant, Ire it ell In the part
porton et affairs. Many alas and pair arthella lave wry
Owned within the last tins year le root the reselsc.unte
ofd hospital, either by i'onstithe ken Orr terror hp as
of their road reaributicas; hat their enthapia Met be ears az-
tarteirly followed, before an Iteethet math add be hew been re-
ared in return der the et oil wag, by tide boro-
n" to roes peer, herr" sod eared beings, whip ithatrbote
who the gnat car Bendel batty rh, and In that swim become the
retinas et sera, sod prep bag
The attention, ariellaw, et the Miallaseall=mta, the ship-
owners and manurateres ot the Clty and Hastread of London, le
,A.repg to the that, that, from Bs pedlar locality (it
being, in Wed, the ode homara tir one-third part at London, and
that put the very centre et earreeree and nienutaetoree)
from Its lemon eircasedrent population et the purer claws
of a:thaw—et deet lawmen—et -prime amplell on railways
—ef thew wlllellaff great huhreh—on aeon reeero sr,„. it.
before4thesd pardmity to the tow noldriereed re Thames
the London Haphal It marry the hogeri et the great cotemer.
dal public, to whir It mar berethemaththellt, with an increasing
sarnestruse, banes eau)* nd smarm
it Wen therehre, whose Irma& om by aMir Ity more espe-
rally grattis etreseent le adhered, In re hope that, wk.-
Orr er tryst ay be led librally to madder
the extra sales, rid or portray relieved by this
institution, art dna le Jelpe thoesseteesot the necernity which
stars item
mare adesdedperrege,Vtle lamas off nitrangor curing
dwell and at applyri vreellee te ewes of eaddint, too fearful to
dwell upon, ant Is he melnednr—hay, if these rear are not to be
serails, &ferried I
Let into
but their INN Irgehed and circumstantial, followed
oat, end an Marra repolns TM be given to an inetitution, at pre.
rat maintaining an Inonsert straggle to yield effectual relief, but
nun.) to th-ses tharris dish every day ecatributes to augment.
Iry order of thalwearg thirlthlths6 WM. J. NIKON, Secretary.
• A period ot kw ye Ira been S
adepted es whirls to bar ths M-
illy cantninad lir Ortserre. The seetuate of all these years
hare lira dely pelliaeL
• rib la la aidltion 'savory large number of accident CALM treated
out.retters. 1662 these amounted to 4,504.
r
t A chaplain (from the separation of the °Moe of chaplain and
house governor, former'y united in one) —a house surgeon (during a
part of the period there were three)—a illapenani—en araletantcleth—
, • nurse—PlX assistant nomes—a cook (Ilebrew)—• housemaid—a
charwoman—and two labourers.