July 21. 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



WESTMINSTER HOSPITAL, 

 Broad Sanctuary, opposite Westminster 

 Abbey.— The Westminster Hospital was in- 

 stituted in tlie year 1719. and was the first of 

 the kind in tlie Uni'ed Kinftdom established 

 and supported by Voluntary Contributions. 

 The principle of admission is based chiefly on 

 the ur^^ency and nature of the symptoms of the 

 patient, and during the pa?t year 1,123 acci- 

 dents and uraent cases have been received as 

 in-patients without letters of recommendation, 

 while 14,381 out-patients have obtained medical 

 or surgical assistance with no other claim than 

 their sufferings. Patients are constantly re- 

 ceived from distant districts ; admission is also 

 freely given to Foreigners who are ill and in 

 distress ; and relief is often afforded to patients 

 who are sent as urgent cases by the clergy of all 

 denominations. 'J he number of patients ad- 

 mitted in 1851 was. in-patients l,75«,out-patients 

 19,5-15 — total 21,299. The demands on the Hos- 

 pital are annually increasing, while the income 

 from all sources has seriously declined. Thus 

 in 1854,— 



£ ». d. 

 The income was - - - 4667 2 10 

 The expenditure - - - 6112 19 21 



Deficiency - - 1445 16 4J 



These increasing demands on the Hospital 

 may, to a certain extent, be explained by the 

 increase of population. Three wards, affording 

 accommodation for 42 patients, arc still un- 

 furnished and unoccupied ; and to open tliese 

 wards, and thus render the Hospital as efficient 

 as originally designed, would require an in- 

 creased income of 1500^ a year, besides the cost 

 of fitting up the wards for the reception of the 

 patients. Efforts are being made to increase 

 the Hospital accommodation of the metropolis, 

 but the duty is more imperative to make the 

 accommodation already existing available. 

 No new establishment is required, no additional 

 officers, no increased buildings, but only means 

 to receive and support in a long-tried establish- 

 ment an increased number of the poor and 

 destitute. 



During the recent epidemic 170 cases of 

 Asiatic cholera were admitted, and 101 of the 

 number wtre restored to health and their 

 families. 3496 cases of choleraic diarrhoea were 

 also received, and, through prompt attention, 

 the further progress of disease was p evented. 

 The Committee earnestly APPEAL, to the be- 

 nevolent for AID, and trust that the extent 

 and value of the medical and surgical relief 

 afforded to the poor from all (arts may cause 

 assistance to be given to the funds of this, the 

 oldest metropolitan Hospital supported by vo- 

 luntary contributions. 



Donations and Subscriptions are thankfully 

 received by Messrs. Hoare & Co., 37. !• leet 

 Street; by Messrs. Bouverie & Co., II. Hay- 

 morket ; by the Joint Treasurers, the Hon. 

 Philip P. Bouverie and Peter R. Hoare, Esq. j 

 or by the Secretary. 



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