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The immediate and collateral advantages arising 

 from such an institution, under the conduct of a 

 medical staff, whose professional talents and bene- 

 volent attention to the sick poor have long been 

 experienced and appreciated, cannot be better ex- 

 pressed than in the words of its indefatigable promoter 

 and zealous advocate the benevolent Vicar of St. 

 Andrew's, in his speech on the occasion of laying 

 the foundation stone of the building, " I cannot but 

 regard this as a most happy event, contemplating as 

 I do the great benefits which will result to the junior 

 members of the medical profession, whose advance- 

 ment in every branch of the healing art, cannot but 

 be greatly promoted by the establishment of this 

 Hospital. Herein too, I trust, both temporal and 

 spiritual health will, under the Divine blessing, be 

 granted to the sick, happiness to the families of those 

 who may be received within its walls, delight to the 

 rich, and a bond of union between both rich and 

 poor which will be highly satisfactory to all classes 

 of the communit^^'' 



The main Building will include an entrance hall 

 and waiting room, wdth a dispensary and committee 

 room (the latter also for the use of the physicians) ; 

 surgeon's room ; a ward on the ground floor ; a 

 theatre for operations and lectures ; offices and rooms 

 for the matron and porter in the basement ; wards 

 for forty beds in the two upper floors, on each of 

 which will be a nurse's room, bath room, and other 

 conveniences ; and a spacious staircase with flights 

 of stone steps and landings from bottom to top. 

 Attached to the entrance in the north front will be 

 a portico, having such altitude and projection as to 

 admit of a full sized carriage beneath it. Care has 

 been taken to insure every facility for the supply of 

 water, and the closest attention has been given to 

 the important subj ect of drainao e. The architectural 

 character of the design is indicated in our perspective 

 view, which exhibits, perhaps, as much decoration 

 as the purpose of the building admits, and certainly 

 a@ much as the funds of the institution allow. 



