The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-19 00:00:00

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THE SUN.
LONDON, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 19, 1862.

We congratulate our fellow-citizens on the South
side of the Thames that their voice, backed by that
of the press and the 'public generally, has prevailed.
rand Committees, as well as Dukes of RUC-
CLEIICH, find it useless to resist when a job be-
ccmes so glaring, and the parties interested are so
nutoerous, that full discussion is insured. In this
case the press and the—in a conventional sense—
respectable portion of the public were perfectly dis-
interested. They hate contended entirely on behalf
of their poorer neighbours. An hospital is an in-
stitution to confer upon the most needy of the poor,
in the most critical medical cases, tio benefit of the
highest medical skill ; this aspect of the case should
never be forgotten. The physicians and surgeons
in attendance upon St. Thomas's Hospital lay just
and deserved stress upon it in their statement. In
England the poorest enjoyed " the skill of HIINTIIR
and ABERNETHY and COOPER, BAILLIE and
BRIGHT, LISTON and BRODIE, CUTE and
TRAVERS, when each was at the zenith of
his power and reputation." A splendid
charity this, but one entirely conditioned on the
prorinlity of the hospital to the great city in which
first doss surgeons tend physicians must reside.
Those wIt:o have demanded the abandonment of the
scheme for making St. Thomas a country hospital
may truly say that in so doing they have secured
for the poorest person suffering under a case need-
ing the highest skill, or nee,iing to undergo an ope-
ration of the greatest difficulty, the very men who
would be sent for by Belgravia, or by the Palace

itself.
To this is to be added the other great considera-
tion, that the cases most claiming hospital atten-
tion are thole "of acute disease, and the immediate
effects of severe accidental injury." The number of
these is very great ; and their conveyance by railway
or other means would always involve great suffering,
often danger, frequently loss of life, before they
could receive attention. These two facts alone are
sufficient to decide the question of removing the
Hospital, or of retaining it near its old site. There
aro several collateral reasons of great importance ;
but the incalculable advantages of being near to
the highest raedislal skill, and to the innumerable
cases which require immediate attention, are suffi-
cient alone to convict of folly, if nothing worse, the
Proposal of the Grand Committee to remove the
hospital into the country. We observe that the
statement of the Physicians and Surgeovs endorses
the arguments which we urged the other day, sup-
portine:t them irresistibly with their greater means
of illustvation; nor can we conceive that after that
statement` has published, and public opinion so
strongly Emilyresae
Committee to attett it be possible for the Grand
old one. pt any scheme similar to their

The Grand coomitt
possible, but the uooet were let down as gently as
psh
submit to an aratuam:l:ll w.ls that they had to
to 28,
their resolu-
tion, by a majority of 47 t
the thieg. The Grand Committee That will settle
itself may now
be stfely Jeft after such an uinst 'ietielo" to resume
their search fora locality. muchvi
as to the necess of not too mach a said by them
i:y
restricting their
choice, lest the proprietor of the favoured
sl•ould demand an unreasonable sum, Of
site
coarsethere is something in this; .but
proprietors must
know that the public -would no move tolerate the
Grand Committee in wasting the fu4ds of the
charity in giving an unreasonable sum for 4 desir•
than in purchasing an undesirable
able site,
one. Railway companies and all public companies
are considered by a certain class as fair game—as
fat geese ,to be plu,4ced ; but the mqn who had pro-
Ind who raised the price exor-
perty in the market„ to the poor,
bitantly, to the injury of a charity
head again
could never hold up his in
society. To make a sha,"p bargain with
per
sons who are avowealy se °Ling profit as
mach
as you are, may be excusable.
Commercial morality certainly exca's it;

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