Star.
London, England, 1805-07-09 00:00:00

DEVON AND EXETER. HOSPITAL

AT a General Court of Governors of the Devon
and Exeter Hofpital held the istb day of June, 18os. and
very nurneriully attended, the following report of the feleet Com-
mit cee which had met leveret times, and deliberated on the mat-
ters referred to them, having been taken Into full eonlideration,
was unauirnoully approved and ordered to be publifhed.
RE.PORT OP THE COMMITTEE.
_ _ _

Your fete& Comtnittee lately appointed to examine into the
alarming Raft of the funds of the Inftitution, and to devife the
means of augmenting its income or of dimlnifhing its expenditure,
prefents the following report, which bas been fandtiotted and
adopted by a full Committee, held the ;3th day of May, Ike.
tR. That the Fund. of the loftitution confift of
new South Sea Annuities :cool. capital, valued in
the annual printed !tam, at 961.45. 3d. per cent. £1924 6 3
Old South Sea Annuities 51161165. tee capi-
tal, valued at 991. per cent. 4209 17 S
Five per cent. annuities 40c1. capital, valued at
'O. per Cent. - 396 0 0

6530 3 8
Aifo one tboufand pounds capital in the four per cent. annuities,
fuhjecl to the payment of 3'L per annum, to William George, and
Catherine his wife, and the furvivor of them; and 51 sea. to be
paid forever, to the Parifh of Clyft St. George.
1 he prefent value of the South Sea annuities is under 601. per
cent. confequently the permanent Fund of the Inititution, is about
one thi-d leis than is reprefented in the annual printed Rate, where
it is eftimatell at 65301 ts. Bd. as above•inentioned.
id. Your Committee having examined the income and expendi-
ture of every defeription, for (even years pait ; reports,
That the average of annual fubfcriptions,dur-
kg that period, has been - £5667 6 4
Benrfa&ions 135 19 0
Legacies annually on an average of t 4 years 586 o 0
Dividends on 75561 16s. id. new and old• South
:ma annuities - 253 TO 0
Rents and Finta - - - 54 1 0

460 z 6 4

And that the avenge difbarfenitiats have been 300.1. z4s. sd.
For the Taft keen years. By this flatement then, it appears that
the expenditure, on an average of that period, has annually ex-
ceeded the itcnme 3911. ills. rd. ; nntwithflanding 3j beds have
been unoccupied during the greater part of the time. The average
number of in-patients, during that period, has been only too; and
the above-mentioted defidency in the funds Itlll continues. though
the number of patients has of late been reduced to 124. The ex-
penditure for the year calling at Lady-day, 1804, amounted to the
rum of 34091. r; s. ad. and upwards; whereat the income taken on
an average as above Rated, has been but 5b161. z6s. 4d. Coble-
quently the yearly deficiency, if the prefent fyltem be purfued,
without farther aid from the public, will probably be Scol.
• Your Conunitteee hat examined into the various articles of ex-
penditure, and has recommended feveral urconomical regulations,
and amsngft others,the contradling for the article of check, and
the purchaling rice, fugar, and treacle, of the whole Cale grocers in
London._

YOll/ Committee has been kindly allilted by the medical gentle.
men, conneded with the Institution, who have fuggeßed tome al-
terations in theirdegartment, by which the exporters may be tome-
what leffened. But al...ough it may be gullible, by there wino.
roieal meafura,to fave about tool. at the annual expenees tome
more decided and effectual fteps are neceflkryi to reduce the ex-
penditure to an equality with the income,
Your Committee laments, that, though former general courts
found it expedient to Ihut up two entire wards, it is now become
unavoidably neeeffary. for the rearms above Itated,to recommend
to the general curt, the [butting up at kilt three wards more, un-
tit fuch time, as the benevolence of the public (hall enable you to
re-open the wards without fear of embarraffinent.
Your Committee likewire begs leave to remind the prefent bent-
: fadors and fuhfctibers. as an inducement to augment their contd.
Midas, how much more each patient now coils the charity, than
when the prcfent right of recommending was ettablilhed ; and
would likewife foggeft to the general court, the propriety of their
Rating to the public at lsrge, the inadequacy of the prefent income,
to tit,• furport of the Inftitution.
In confequence of the rtprefentations contained in the preceding
report, it Wa • Mud-holly but unaiiiinoufly refolvei. and it is or.
&red accordingly, that five war. more he forthwith Run up, fo as
to bung the number of unoccupied wards to fever, and of vacant
beds to 64. the towt amount of beds in the hofpital Ming 184,
there will then remain 11C only for the reeertion of Patients. This
very diminifhed number of patients is yet greater than the pretest
income of the Inftitution can niaintain, and a greater reduction
would now have been direCted, but for this court's confident rc-
Ranee on an Inerrafe of the public liberality. To infiit upon the
great importance of this Inftitution not only to the health-and live
of our fellow mortals in diftrefs, but alio in many refpeds to the
ititerefts of focicty at large, mutt be quite unnece Wary. The court
entertains too high an opinion of the wifdoni and humanity of the
Nobility, Gentry, Clergy, and Yeomanry, of the County of Devon
and its neighbourhood, to think for a moment, after the preceding
report Mall be pUbliChed, that they will fuffer to fink into decay,
an ellablidiment, which flute it was intlituted has reltored to
health forty-one .houfand and five hundred of our indigem fellow
creatures, and afforded coofiderable relief to upwards of nine thou.
faad fuuilar circumstances.
I SAM. FRED. MILFORDS Chairman.

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