The Sun.
London, England, 1847-06-17 00:00:00

Persons afflicted with malignant and con-

tagious diseases V 19,432
Ditto, suffering under various diseases
Accidents relieved and sent home ' 804
Patients under the dentist 462

Total
In addition to the above, there have been 1,286
totally destitute persons admitted into the
wards, of whom 68 have died, and 1,189 have
been discharged cured.

Total relieved
It was needless for him to dwell upon this amount of
good in order to enforce the claims of the charity on the
liberal support of the public.—(Hear, hear.) He was
happy to learn that the amount of debt was diminished,
but the total amount still remaining was 5,246/ The
receipts during the year had amounted to 4,6321. Bs. 6d.,
while its expenses amounted to 5,017/ 2s. If ever there
was a case made out for the liberal support of the
public, it was that of the Royal Free Hospital; and he
hoped that its friends and supporters would rally round
and support it with a spirit of increased liberality.
Dr. RICE returned thanks, and, in alluding to the
benefits conferred by the charity, stated that, in all his
experience in the medical department of the hospital, he
had never witnessed any deviation from the strictest
rules of propriety on the part of those who were the re-
cipients of its benefits.
Mr. HUMFREY, Q.C., proposed the next toast, which
was, " The Duke of Buccleuch, the President, and the
Vice-Presidents of the Society." With respect to his
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and support than that of the Royal Free Hospital.—
(Cheers.) It had been well said that, in order to depict
to the mind in its full extent the horrors of war, they
must not speak of the extended battle-field, where the
mind was drawn from the contemplation of individual
suffering by the splendour and glories of the scene
before it, but that they must look at some desolate indi-
vidual—some weeping family robbed of its parent
and protector, and then, and then alone, would the mind
feel in all its intensity the full horrors of the dreadful
carnage; so in the case of the Royal Free Hospital, the
mind was drawn from the contemplation of general and
wide-spread distress and misery to a recollection of the
circumstance that more than 20 years since one single
desolate, distressed, and friendless female was found
dying upon the door-steps of a house in this metropolis,
with no one to aid her, and no one to succour her. It
was to the contemplation of that picture of dig
tress that this institution owed its rise, and it
would in the end prove a subject of rejoicing
to every huniane heart to feel that the contemplation of
that bitter moment had been the cause of doing so much
good, and that the sacrifice then accomplished had been
the means of saving thousands and tens of thousands
from a similar fate.—(Cheers.) Had the friends of this
society wished to inscribe a sentence in which all good
men might unite in its praises, they could not have de-
sired it to be couched in terms more eloquent, or which
would strike more closely to the heart, than that heart-
felt sentence upon the title-page of the report of this
society :
" Foreigners, strangers, and others, in sickness or
disease, having neither friends nor homes, are admittedinto the wards of this hospital on their own application,
so far as the means of the charity will permit. All sick
and diseased persons, having no other means of obtaining
relief, may attend at this hospital every day at one
o'clock, when they will receive medical and surgical ad-
vice and medicine free."
Could any words state more forcibly the claims and
objects of the society than that simple sentence ?
(Hear, hoar.) An appeal was made to the liberality of
those present, which he was sure would meet with a
hearty response, on behalf of those whose life was one