The Sun.
London, England, 1869-10-30 00:00:00

NURSING.—ST. JOHN'S HOUSE and
SISTERHOOD for TRAINING NURSES for
HOSPITALS, Families, and the Poor: established 1848.

,
President—The Lord Bishop of LONDON.
The nursing at King's College and the Charing-cross
Hospitals, and the Galignani English Hospital at Paris,
is at present superintended by the Sisters of John's
House. _ _ _

Ladies or others wishing to qualify themselves as
members of the House or Sisterhood, or as pupils to bo
trained to nurse, are requested to communicate with the
Lady Superior.
Donations and Subscriptions to the General Fund, the
Sisters' Fund, or the Nurses' Pension Fund, may be paid
to Messrs. Coutts ; or to the Lady Superior, at St. John's
House Norfolk-street, Strand, W.C.

The total of premiums received is .£371,548 12s. ld., of
which sum £13,560 ss. ld. is for new assurances effected
in the year.
The interest from investments is £120,959 12s. 10d., or
£4 2s. per cent. on the net amount of the company's
realised assets existing in June, 180 ; and in connection
with This important feature of the company's affairs the
directors have the satisfaction of reporting that the profit
and loss account again exhibits a considerable profit,
amounting this year within a trifle to the sum of £48,000.
It may be remembered that, a profit of nearly equal amount
was announced in last year's report.
Turning to the items constituting the charge of the
fear, it will be noticed that the sum payable in satisfac-
tion of claims on decease of lives assured is larger than
usual. - This ctreurmtanues-lanwever, id not very material;
I, as was observed o a previous occasion, the proper quin-
luennial average is generally pretty sure to obtain, and
the fact ant the average for the past two years barely ex-
eeeda X30',000 tends to confirm that statement.

The expenses of management are greater by nearly
£BOO than they were last year. They would have been
materially less but for the unavoidable cost of transferring
the compan3's securities into the names of additional trus-
tees. Taken as they are, however, these expenses must
be regarded as very moderate. It will be observed that
they are.only three per cent. of the total income.
BALANCE-SHEET, JUNE 30, 1869.
DR. LIABILITIES.
interest due to proprietors £6,757 17 0
Atims on decease of lives assured, and

Addditions thereto unpaid 108,940 6 7
Sundry accounts
Liabill., -ler sums assured, &c. (1867) 6,336,626 8 2
Proprietuo fund 172,202 10 0
Surplus fund

£7,675,813 0 10
Examined and approved.
THOMAS ALLEN) Auditors.
HENRY ROSE,
CR ASSETS.
tmeunt invested in fixed mortgages £1,661,699 9 2
Ditto ditto decreasing ditto 162,770 15 2
Ditto ditto Reversions 278,557 16 6
Ditto ditto Funded securities 491,303 4 2
litto ditto Temporary secu-
-198,207 17 0
rities
;urrent interest on the aboveinvestments 30,934 4 6
cash and bills 12,256 15 10
&dvanced on security of the company's
policies 165,387 1 8
AFmats balances
Sundry accounts
Value of premiums (1867) ..... 4,506,167 18 0
Value of re-assurances 85,706 14 5

£7,675,813 0 10

The balance-sheet does not appear to call for any re-
?nark. The assets are, of course, increased by the sum of
£95,422 is. 3d. already mentioned, as is shown by the
augmentation to that extent in the balance of the surplus
fund.

The Direction of the Company is now constituted as
follows :

WILLIAM FREDERICK DE LA RUE, ESQ., Chairman.
ROBERT ALEXANDER GRAY, Esq.., Deputy-Chairman
Charles Bischoff, Esq. James Murray, Esq.
Thomas Boddington, Esq. Philip Rose, Esq.
Charles Chatfield, Esq. George Russell, Esq.
Sir J. Buller East, Bt., D.C.L. Thomas Godfrey Sambrooke
Wm. At':gustus Guy, M.D., Esq.
F.R.S. Admiral Tindal.
CoarlesThos.Tlolcombe,Esq. Right lion. Sir John Young
Joshua Lockwood, Esq. Bart., K.C.B.