The Sun.
London, England, 1803-04-29 00:00:00

BEDFORD INFIRMARY.

•
A T a GENERAL MEETING of the BUI3.
A. SCRIBERS totheBEDFORD INFIRMARY; held
at the Swan Inn,-Bedford, Wednesday, April 20i i8.)3;
GODFREY THORNTON. Esq. MO Sheriff; hi the
Chair ;
The following Report was brought up by Mr, Whitbread;

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Your ComMittee, in pursuance of the instruuions given
to them at your last General Meeting, proceeded to digest a
Plan for the Medical Establishment of the Infirmary, and
flaying resolved that it ought to consist of one Physician,
two Surgeons in Ordinary and one Apothecary and I louse.
Surgeon, advertised" for Proposal.; front Medical -Gentlemen
to fill those situations.---In due time: they proceeded to the
investigation of the Claims gt the di Ihrrent -.Candidates-1 and
they now-recommend far your appointment, Grant, David
Yeats, M.D. as Physician to the Institution; Mr. Charles
Short and Mr. fohn Pitney, as Surgeons •in Ordinary, and
Mr. James Buthit, as Apothecary and liouse-Wgcon•
Your Committee also recommend for your lippointiner.t,
Mrs. Elizabeth Purser, as Matron to the Infirmary.
Mr. Wing, your Builder, has reported, that. the Plaister.
ing to the Upper Story of the Infirmary is entirely finished,
-and in 74 part of the Story up One pair of Stairs; and is in
hand an the.G Orlin+ and- Basement Stories; that the Flonr-
ing Boards are ail prepared, and in- seine of the Wards-laid;
that the gteatest part at the Sash Frames are fixed,. and the
Sashes in a state of forwardness; that the Steps to time En-
trance are set, and that the Workmen are laying the Pave-
tnent hr the Passages, arc. on the Ground Floor • that the
Floors to all the Oflicetin the Base:tient Story arelaid ; 'thtkt
the whole of the Worics are in hand, and in as for Ward a state
as the season of the yea. will permit.
•: Mr. Wing further reports, that he has received the Sixth
instalment, due upon ins Contrad at Lady-day last, of soci:
Mr. Barnard, your Treasurer, has as delivered in the tottuw-
ingStatentent of his Accotutts,

- .. • 1,. 4.. d.
fly his last Account he had a Pittance int-land-Of '9.13s • to
Received fresh Donations . - - - - 30 ;,. o
I)it:u Annual Subscriptions - - - - is si o
That he has Credited the Account with Intere:4 .
up to March tht: astit - - ... - 103 a o

,C.• 9014 0 10

That he has paid;,by Order of the Committee, to
Mr. John Wing : - - - -50 Q 0 0
To Mr. No t•; - -
, . - - 31 Li c
or Advertisments - - - - 7,4
Ditto - -'

FOr Poor's Rams for ti:T atillding -

I 1). 9
1 7 6

• ,C, s4z S 2
And that there consequently remains in his Hands
a :dance of - 4. 90-11 12 2
To this Sum is to be added the Stock arising. from the lie-
que.,t of the late Mr, Hawkins, which your Committee h.tve
to intOrm you has actually been trAnsferred into the NAn..%,
of your Trustecs.

-It gives your.Comtnittee groat Pain to observe,' that some
Donations and Annual Subscriptions still remain unpaid.
Nothing can more tetid to (let:Live the Subscribers in general;
as to the adual State of ?heir Funds; a. the number of Ob.
jests they may have it in their power to Tctlic:VC.,. than -the
appearance of Names upon their List without the regular
payment of the Sums affixed to them. Your COmmittee re-
commend that you do order them to dired a Circular Letter
to be wrimn to the. Subscribers ip Atrear, requesting the
pAytmutt of their. .respaaive Suhscriptians within a limited
time .'or that they will 'withdraw their Nantes front the
of the Treasure/.

1'• Cunimittect also have to recommend to you to give a
general °Mar ar the payment ot;Subseriptions tor the current
year,' ou or betbre the 24th day of June next, and to make it
a rule that no Subscriber shall be allowed to present a Pa.
tient, unless all Arrears of SubscriptiOns shall have been paid
more than three months, as is the case in Institutions of a
similar Datum.

Your-Committee have given Orders for the Preparation of
so much Furniture as will he neeessaryfor One Ward, and
although they cannot determine exactly at what period the
House will be fit to receive Patients (that depending entirely
upon the dryncis or moisture ot the Season), there is little
doubt tints tieing ful iv prepared in some Wards, by the latter
end of the Month of fuly-, or the beginning or the Month of
August. •
Your Committee propose to you, to invest them with dis.
cretion.try power to give notice, when the Building is actually
fit tbr the purposei to draw up a Code of Laws for its Regu-
lation, and fhr such other,Matters of Detail as may be Wood
LeCCSSAry
Your Committee cingratulatc you on the near view of the
Completion of this great Design ; and confiding in the In-
crcitswg Liberality of the Public, in their P,vn unabating
zeal for the prosperity ot the 1 nStitution, :uid in the skilful,
perserer ing, and, above all, harmonious co-operation of the
Professional .Gentleinen- whom they have seletted : they
look tbrward with ,theigreatest satisfaction ta„.your neNt (;e-
-nerd Aleetipg ;, when r ;ley hope to.shew you` the first finits
of the active' andperpuioal Benevolence of the Pounder, and
of that generosity and wimlom with which you have seconded
his endeavours, and trod in his steps.

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Resolved,. That the Report of the Conirnittee be adopted.
Resolved, That Dr. Yeats is appointed .I)llr.ician ; Mr.
Charles Shortand Mr. John Volley arc. Surgeons in Orinary,
and' Mr. Woes Bodin, Apothecary and lHouse-Surgeon to
the Infirmary

Resolved, That Mrs. Elizabeth Punter is appointed Ma-
tron to the Infirmary.
Resolved, That tare Committee have tuil power to draw
up a Code of Regulations tin. the Maaagesmatt of the I lair-
Diary, to appoint salaries, name the Day tor the first Recep-
tion of Patients, and do all such other ads as May be lOund
:necessary.

-Ite!,olvetle That a Circular Letter be athlreaszil by the
Committee to all Subscribers in arrear, requesting,tk
&he
,Payment of their respeetive SiibScriptions, or the re..
of their Names bran the hooks at' the Treasurer.

IteSolved, That the Subscriptions tor the current. Year
shall be paid 4111 Of before the 24te, Day of June next; arta
that no S.l6s4:fiber shall have the Privilege at presentinga
Patients unless all Arrears of his Subscription shall 'have
been paid Titre,' Months

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That the Proceediry of the Day be. published.
That the Thanks ot.the Meeting be given to the Chain/inn
-Adjourned to the First Day of the'next liedforki Races.
GOD I-R Y THORNTON, Chairman.

DONATIONS AND ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTIONS,
From Peceinber 25, ►Boz, to Mart;lt 25, 18a3. •
Don:itioi►s. An. Suh.
Parish of Dunstable-Houghton X. 5 5 o I Z..° 0 o
The Right Hon. Lord Bishop of
Lincoln .
Aflleck Rev. Patton
Addington Joseph, Barnett
Westwood and liury, Newgatc-
street

25 o o
o o o

5 I

2 2 0

-O 0 o

7 7 6
000 2 2 n

£.30 5 0 I If rx 0

LALEHAM,
To BE SOLO BY AIM-41(7N.
By Zi.IN THOMAS.CHAPMAA
(71 Richmond, Surrey,
ltt J.OIIS,
On FRIDAY, the aoth o 1 May next, at Twelve o'Clock,
at Noon precisely, at the Bush Inn, Staines,
rr HE MANOR And LORDSHIP r LALE.
HAM, with Court Leet and .Court Baron, several
MansiOn Houses and Cadens cut the flanks of the River
Thames ; and upwards of Eight Hundred and Twenty
Acres of rich Arable, Meadow, and Pasture Land ; 'the,
greatest part tree frontTythes : a healthy situation, and
situate in one of the best wighbourhOods ; only one mile
from (litany, two from Staines, and sixteen from Vendor),
Further particulars may be had at the Chambers of Mr.
Graham, Lincoln's-inn ;of Mr. Thomas Chapman, Land_
Surveyor and Auaioncer, Itichniond, Surrey ; and of Mr:
Thomas HatrisOn, of Laleham, (who svitl show the Pre--
miles); at the Bush, at Staittes; and of Mr. Horne, Attorney
art aw, Staines. , . .

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