The Sun.
London, England, 1862-02-12 00:00:00

T. TEO3I,IS'S HOSPITAL.

ANOTHER NEW SPECULATIVE SITE.
2,11.01 K A CORRESPONDENT.
rhThe advantages that must accrue to the towns of Wool-
, Greenwich, Deptford, and surrounding neighbourhood
3' the proposed removal of St. Thomas's Hospital from its
Present position to that of a more suitable site at Lewisham,
cannot be too highly estimated, whether in a social or a
4tomercial point of view.
I:l3The site in question is one of the most stately in the
111 - of London, and the district of Lewisham is prover-
hasDialaf3 the healthiest in this great metropolis. The estate
hi gravelly a gravelly soil, and is situate about 60 feet above the
gll road, on the apex of a hill, contiguous to
4 that of Blackheath, and commanding lovely scenery;
the air, light and bracing,
1. is of the purest, and free
°°l the smoke of London or neiing facto-
_le 8) and will tend materially to the rapidghbour restoration of the
wolvalescent patients.
,_AD-other great desideratum is that the site offered will
'l,tve the advantage of a siding, or branch line, of railway
tomre, the contemplated new railway to Tonbridge, about
De cons ru3ted by the South Eastern Railway Company,
a" to pass through a portion of this estate ;
s. that for the
retneral convenience of I the public it will be equally advan-
,geons, or perhaps more so to the patients, than any new
41to contiguous to its present position.
The supposition that the removal of the institution at a
distance requiring only 12 minutes by rail from London-
:"ridge would be inconvenient to the public is erroneous,
eel/1g that hundreds of cases occur where the patients to
'3t. Thomas's Hospital come from the districts of Woolwich
1111 d Deptford, &c., and not from the neighbourhood of
ofithwark—but from all parts of London—north, south,
east, and west, wherever the invalid may reside or the
governor's interest for an order of admission be available—
and as for accidents, they do not necessarily occur in the
neighbourhood of a hospital for the convenience of admix.
/lion therein. The Charing Cross extension line will shortly
13,e °Pen t) Lewisham, where patients can be conveyed in
about 15 minutes to Lewisham, less time than now occupied
11, coming from westward to London-bridge; and it is
'lnitl e probable that the demand for admission into this
tara hospital would be greatly in excess over
,that
et' its present applicants, seeing that the time
required for the recovery of
the patient would as a rule
he much less than now necessary, and the hospital conse-
quently rendered capable of receiving, and administering
115 en increased number of patients.
further advantage is that the schools would be better
attended, and the morals of the students far advanced,
133' being withdrawn from the vice of a London life. There
le ample room on the estate for the erection of a suitable
4%lniege, as also a sanatorium, with park and pleasure gar-
he parish of Lewisham is remarkably low rated, and the
ate has the advantage of a main sewer, together with
dater and gas, and every requisite for an establishment of
14 Character.
I,,The price of the land, which is freehold, will not exceed
-4'2°o per acre, and it is computed that this land could be
15111'ahased and the required buildings erected at a cost not
,„ ell exceeding that required for the land alone in the
qeighbourhood of London.
The
Pop Alation is rapidly increasing in Blackheath,
New Cross, Greenwich, Deptford, Lewisham,. &c.,
"4 in 20
will surrounded by a district almost
Years hence be
&ea
tnerous as that of Southwark. The removal
movaatleroifalSity.
°111"'s Hospital from its present site does no
etiven• district, seeing that the
ience that locality or .
tibit !patiolta are not necessarily inhabitants of the
Hospital,Ho sp i Hospital
(oppositeletnd that the institution known as
argent
to it) will remain, and always be open to receive_
Ta_c:ues that might otherwise have been taken to St.
6 Hospital,

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-TV regret to an-
itt 4
a , 11l OP Sin T. J. PLATT 1 e
fortl ° the death of the Hon. Sir Thomas Joshua Platt,
place one of the Barons of the Exchequer,
The
d 01l
at his residence Portland-plaee. _
was
ee,ti
~ Monday, 7 which took
44, :" was a son of the late Mr. Thomas Platt, d brio 4'ed at Harrow School and at Trinity College, Cam?
NI; where he graduated 8.A., in 1810 and M.A.A "a,
i'kx,, Ito entered as a student of the Inner Temple, and
15114,9 ed to tho Bar by that society in 1816 ; he afterward
ilil ilnocl on the H0,,.e Circuit, and became a King's coun-
ilolltrA-4071,11e was raised to the Bench as a Baron of the
lira 73,1 .uhequer in 1845) but retired in 1856. He was
,3'ear.