The Sun.
London, England, 1837-11-18 00:00:00

RAMSGATE DISPENSARY.

Statement of the result of Ramsgate and St. Lawrence
Dispensary Cases for Nino Years .
Admitted...Ramsgate
St. Lawrence
Cured Ramsgate
St. Lawrence ... .....
Relieved...Ramsgate 213
St. Lawrence
Died , .... Ramsgate
St. Lawrence
Discharged Ramsgate . 42
St. Lawrence

. 6,233
. 2,306

Total Ramsgate 6,233
St. Lawrence
The proportion of Cures to admissions is 92 per cent. at
Ramsgate. and 921 at St. Lawrence.
Ditto relief ditto nearly 3i per cent, at Ramsgate, and
nearly 2 per cent. at St. Lawrence.
Ditto deaths ditto, nearly 41- per cent. at ditto, and nearly
44 per cent. at ditto.
Of the deaths in both places one-third are children under
fire years of age.
In estimating the number of cases with reference to the po-
pulation of the two parit.l,el, supposing the average population
of Ramsgate, during the nine years, to be 9,000, and the po-
pulation of St. Lawrence to average 3,000 then the
average of cases, in these nine years, is nearly 7 / per
cent. per annum on the population of Ramsgate, and about Bi-
per cent. per annum on the population of St. Lawrence.
The receipts of this institution during the nine preceding
years, have been 1,7511. 17s. Bd. The expenditure during
the same period, 1,8521. 18s. Aid.
8,539 cases have been admitted at an expense of 1,8521. 18s.
or about 4s. 4d. each case, of which the proportion paid to the
surgeons is about 3s. 9d. 7,853 out of the above number hare
been cures.

It will be perceived that in the period of nine years the ex-
penditure has exceeded the income by 10 11., and the Governors
have been compelled to reduce the salaries of the surgeons,
although the increasing population of the parishes will tend to
additional duties. Admitting that this charity was intended to
benefit the sick poor, and not for the advantage of the profes-
sion, a remuneration of 3s. 9d. for each case, which on an
average engages three weeks' attendance, besides medicine, is
by no means extravagant, and the late reduction will bring it
down to something less than 3s. 2d.
WM. HUNT, Secretary.

Last week, two horses belonging to Mr. Ibbotson,
of Dungworth, were turned into a pasture in which there
was a pit four yards deep ; shortly afterwards, Mr. Ibbot-
son observed one of them to be very uneasy, frequently
running to the gate and trying to get out of the field.
Thinking that the horse wanted to get under cover, as it
was hailing very fast at the time, he went to open the
gate, where he was met by the horse, which began neigh-
ing very loud, and then galloped to the mouth of the pit.
Mr. Ibbotson was attracted to the place, where he disco-
vered the other horse at the bottom ; assistance was im
mediately procured, and Smiler was released from the awk-
ward predicament into which he had fallen, without hav-
ing sustained any injury. The other, on seeing his compa-
nion in a fair way for being liberated, started for home at
full speed.—Doncaster Gazelle.
Sheridan's servant startled a dinner party by knock-
ing down a plate-warmer without breaking a single piece of
china. " You don't mean to say, Sir," cried Sheridan,
" that you have made all that noise for nothiiiii?"