The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-01-19 00:00:00

SOUTHERN AND •TOXTETH HOSPITAL

The Fifth Annual Meeting of this valuable Charity was
held yesterday in the Board-room of the Institution, Par-
liament-street, the respected President, Joseph B. Yates,
Esq., in the chair, The following tabular statement,
read by him, exhibits the operations of the Institution
during the past year.

In ' Out Total
Cured......
Relieved l2 0 12
Left Hos. at own request 12 0 12
Irregular l3 0 13
Dead 34 11 45
Under treatment. 57 28 85

573 1436 2009

.
Operations— 7 13 20
Accidents ........... 363 1089 1452
Of the 34 dead, fourteen died within 24 hours after ad-
mission, the other twenty surviving for various longer
periods •

Dead, when brought to the hospital .
Patients in the hospital during 1845 62
Admitted from Ist Jan., 1846, to do. 1847 573

Of these were discharged, cured or relieved 482
Dead . 34
Remaining in the hospital Jan. 1, 1847..... 57
The CHAIRMAN said that the committee had to regret,
much that several minor cases were excluded from the
benefit of the institution in consequence of the inadequate
accommodation, and the board would require £2OOO more
before they would be able to render the establishment
efficient. They had now accommodation for 60 in-door
patients, but when they had completed the intended
enlargement, there would be twice the number of beds.
He said that unless the call was better responded to in
the present than during the past year, some delay would
unavoidably take place ; and without the sum he had
named it would be morally impossible to meet the wants
of the poor.

The report, which was ordered to be printed, stated
that the cases of extreme distress were more numerous
last year than ever, and many accidents, and a large
number of medical cases, had been excluded, for want of
accommodation. The committee appealed to shipowners
and gentlemen engaged in the timber and foreign trades
for more sympathy on behalf of the institution, as the
committee consider that the efficient maintenance of the
hospital can be proved in various ways to be essential to
the well-being of Liverpool. The enlargement of the
building must ere long be proceeded with, if it be intended
to keep pace in any degree with the requirements occa-
sioned by the extension of the docks. The committee
express their grateful thanks to the clergy, and especially
to the Rev. Mr. Nolan, their worthy chaplain, for their
effective appeals to their congregations.
It was moved by the Rev. Mr. HESKETH, and seconded
by Mr. EDWARD CROPPER, " That the thanks of the
meeting be given to Jos. B. Yates, for his valuable ser-
vices as President during the past year, and that he be
requested to continue that office."
Several gentlemen present spoke most warmly as to his
ability end zeal fur the good of the charity,
A vote of thanks was voted to the Vice-President,
Mr- Platt, the Treasurer, and the members of the com-
mittee.

The President, Treasurer, and several gentlemen, after
the motion of thanks to the Rev. T. Nolan, Honorary
Chaplain, expressed the deep obligations of the committee
to the unremitting and pains-taking attention of the
reverend gentleman, who, it was stated, besides adminis-
tering daily to the respective spiritual necessities of the
inmates, has a special service, every Sunday afternoon,
for their general comfort and edification.

LAIINCH.—A splendid new ship, of 650 tons register,
will be launched from the building-yard of Messrs. Clarke
and Co., Queen's Dock, this day at noon. She is to be
called the " Marian," has been built expressly for
Messrs. C. W. and F. Shand, and is intended for the East
India trade.

BOARD OF EXAMINATION OF MASTERS AND MATES.—
At a Board held on Tuesday, the 12th inst., Capt. Edward
G. Lott, of the Caledonia, one of the British and North
American Royal Mail Steam-packet Company's vessels,
was examined, and found duly qualified for a first-class
extra certificate as master, which was accordingly granted
to him.

DEATH FROM BURNING.—On Wednesday morning
last, while Ellen Jones, aged 22, servant to Mr. Robert
Mitchell, of South Castle-street, was taking a kettle off
the fire, her apron became ignited, and set her in a blaze.
Mr. Mitchell, to whom she ran up stairs, did his utmost
to extinguish the flames by using the carpet, and suc-
ceeded, but she died from the injuries on Saturday.
DEATH FROM PENURY.—An inquest was held yest,er-.
day, on view of the body of Mary Kenney, aged 55.
Deceased was the wife of James Kenney, joiner, Toxteth-
park, but they had not lived together for twelve months,
he allowing her eight shillings to twelve shillings a-week to
live upon. Deceased was very penurious, and was also
addicted to drinking. She resided alone in Great Homer-
street, and was there found by some neighbours dead in
bed, on Saturday last. On an examination of the body,
it appeared there was no food on the stomach and that
death was caused by want f sustenance. ,