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THE REPORT OF THE ROYAL

HOSPITALS IN THE CITY.

The following is an abstract of the Annual Report of the
great number of poor children and other poorpeople main-
tained in the several Royal Hospitals in the City of Lon-
don, under the pious care of the Lord Msyor, Aldermen,
and Governors thereof:—
CHRIST'S HOSPITAL.

Children first put apprentices and discharged from Christ's
Hospital the year last passed, 157, five whereof being
instructed in mathematics and navigation, now placed
forth apprentices to commanders of ships, out ef the
Mathematical School founded by his late Majesty King
Charles 11.
Children buried the year last passed l4
Children now under the care and charge of the
Hospital in London and at Hertford 1,245
1,437
To be admitted on presentation granted at
this time
The support of this Hospital materially depends upon
benefactions and bequests. As that part of its income
which is permanent is far short of maintaining the usual
number of children, whose education qualifies them for
the Church, for naval service, and for every station of
life, according to their abilities, and as the principles ef
rLligion, as well as the order of civil society, are points
to which their attention is constantly directed, it is hoped
that all charitable persons will readily contribute to an in-
stitution which is not only of local, bnt of ns.tional good.
The expense of repairing and keeping up the buildings of
this Hospital (many of which are very ancient, and origin-
elly formed part of the old Grey Friars Monastery) hay-
ilg been found to be already burdensome, a fund was es-
tablished in 1802, by subscription of the Governors and
other friends of the Hospital, with a view to the gradual
and complete rebuilding of the whole fabric, and a great
part has accordingly been restored in a most commodious
and substantial manner, without reducing the number of
children upon the establishment during the progress of the
works. Much, however, yet remains to be done, and the Go-
vernors regret to state that the fund originally subscribed is
completely exhausted, and a very considerable sum has been
expended from the general fands of the charity; but they
are willing to hope that the generosity of the public will
nffird the mraus of completing the great work, and pre-
v .lat the necessity of encroaching further upon the perma-
nent income of the Hospital, and thereby diminishing the
scope of its usefulness.
ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S HOSPITAL.

Patients admizte3, cured and discharged during the
list year, 5,015; In-Patients, 12,827 ; Out-
patients, aid 15,830 casualty patients, most of
them ate poor, sick, and lame persons; and
being destitute of all relief many of them have
begin supplied with money, clothes, and other
necessaries, to enable them to return to their
several habitations; in the w hole 33,672
Buried from thence
S In- Patients
Remaining under cure
Out-Patients
• . •

This being the most ancient Hospital in the City and
suburbs of London, and having escaped the great fire in
the year 1,666, the buildings by length of time became so
very ruinous that in the year J 729, there was a necessity
that great part thereof should be taken down, and a sub.
scription was tben entered into by many of the Governors
n d ether charitable persons for defraying the expenses of
re-building, which was pregr,ensively effected. All fees
on the admivtion of patients have been abolished, the
sisters and nurses placed in situations of comfort, better
adapted to the nature of their duties, and the accommoda-
tion for the In-Patients, now so extended as to admit
above 500, and their diet and general comforts very ma-
taially improved. The accomplishment of those objects,
so essential to the welfare of the patientv, has occasioned a
very heavy increase of annual expenditure, The Go-
vernors, therefore, particularly beg leave to submit the
.same to the benevolent attention of the public.
ST. THOMAS'S HOSPITAL.

There have been cured and discharged from St. Tho-
mas's Hospital, in Southwark, the last year, of sick,
wounded, maimed, and diseased persons, 2,897 in-patients,
and 32,476 medical and surgical out-patient=, including
c some of whom have been relieved with money
and necessaries at their departure, to accommodate and sup-
port them in their journeys to their several habita-
tions . 35,373
Buried from thence, after much charge in their
sickness
Remaining under cure In-patients / Out-patients
736

So that there have been, during the last year, of
poor miserable objects, under the care cf the
said Hospital, and destitute of other proper care,
in all

The Governors think it their duty to state, that in con-
sequence of rebuilding London Bridge, and the formation
of its new approaches, at an elevation of many feet above
the old level, they have been obliged to make large pur-
chases of grounds and buildings adjacent to the Hospital, at
a considerable expenditure of ca7ital, in order to secure such
ventilation and accommodation as are necessary to the
health and comfort of the patients. They have also been
obliged to rebuild the north wing: on a new site, the former
building having been rendered irsecure by the removal ofthe
house adjoining. And they are now rebuildinga correspond-
ing wing on the south side, which had become necessary in
consequence of the whole south wing being so dilapidated,
badly lighted, and ventilated, as to make it unfit for the
reception of patients. It is therefore humbly and earnestly
recommended to all charitable E ersons, that they would be
pleased, by their contributions, ao enable the Governors to
defray these heavy charges, and to meet the still greater
outlay which will be requisite to complete the plan of im-
provements now unavoidably in progress ; as well as to
continue affording, and still further extending, relief to the
distresses of the numerous sick, maimed, and diseased
poor, who daily apply in large numbers for the same, as
appears from the above and other annual account', parti-
cularly in the class of surgical out-patients, for whose
better relief and attendance arrangements upon an improved
plan have been adopted.
BRIDE WELL HOSPITAL.
Received into this Hospital during the last year,
under commitments by the Lord Mayor and the
Aldermen of the City, as criminal or disorderly
persons, who have been kept to hard labour or
received correction
Apprentices sent by the Chamberlain for solitary
confinement 74
Received into this Hospital during the same period,
sundry poor persons, who have been convicted
for wandering abroad and begging in the streets
of London l5O

1,308
The Governor informs the public that they have opened
a new house of occupation in St. George's-fields, where
the honest and industrious poor (and more especially the
young) are instructed in useful trades, upon a more ex-
tensive scale than has been found practicable of late years,
owing to the increase of buildings contiguous to the old
site ; and where, in the case of those who have forfeited
their characters in society, the great objects of moral re-
form, and restoration of character (as contemplated by the
original charter) are provided for on a large scale.
BETHLEM HOSPITAL.

CURABLE&
Remaining in the hospital on the Ist of January, 1840, includ-
ing those out on leavecf absences Men ... 61 }
Women 110 171
Admitted in 1840 Men ... 128
30 8
Women 180

Dibeharged cured . . Men ... 64 479}
173
Women 109
Ditto uncured Men ... 25
Women 44 69
Ditto, request of friends Men .., 1 Z A
Women 3 S -'`
Ditto, improper objects Men ... 21 }
37
Women 16
Ditto, having teen sent out on leave of ab-
sence, and no account received since of Men 2 10
their state of mind..._ Women 8
Died Men 4 Z
Women 8 12
Remaining on the 31st December, 1840
Out on leave Men 7I ~
Women 9 1 16
Ia the Hospital Men 65 1
158
Women 93

Incurable : _
Remaining in the Hospital on the Ist of
January, 1840 Men 26
64
Women 38
Admitted in 1840. Men 17 31
Women 14 j

Discharged Cured Women 1
Ditto, by request of friends... Men 2 } 3
Died Men 3)
Women 1 i 4
Remaining on the 31st of December, 1840 :

In the Hospital ...Men 38
88
Women 50

Women 4 95
Criminals:—
Remaining in Hospital Jan. 1,1840... Men 65 Z. ,n
Women 15 --
Admitted in 1840 ......Men. 7 11

Di, charged Cured Men 5 _
Women 1 6
Died Men 5 7
Women 2 S
Remaining in the Hospital on Dec. Men 62 1
78
31, 1840

91
Remaining in the Hospital the Curables 171
Ist Jan. 1840, including those Incurables 64 315
out on leave
Admitted in 1840 Curat les 308
Incurables 31 350
Criminals 11

665
Disehlrged in various ways in Curables 305
1840, as above specified
Criminals 13
Remaining in the Hospital Dec. Curables 174
31, 1340, including those Out Incurables 88 340
on leave •• Criminals 78

The Governors inform the public that a Committee
meets every Friday at Bethleno Hospital, to admit and
discharge the insane from 111 Pert:2 of the. CitedCitedKingdom,
without exp°tise to tlioii- relations or friends.
The Hospital
for Lunatics, on an unproved plan, newly erected in bt.
George's Fields, unites the advantages of air, exercise,
and out-door occupation for the patients. To extend the