July 7. 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



KENT MUTUAL LIFE AND 

 FIRE ASSURANCE SOCIETIES. 

 Chief OfiSce.- QUEEN STREET PLACE, 

 NEW CANNON STREET, LONDON. 

 Branch Offioks. 

 Hish Street, Rochester. 

 Waterloo Place, Pall Mall. 

 Albion Place, Hyde Park Square. 

 Sloane Street, Chelsea. 

 New Street, Birmingham. 

 Bond Street, Wolverhampton. 



LIFE. 



Trustees. 

 Sir James Duke, Bart., M.P., and Alderman. 

 Alexander Bramwell Bremner, Esq. 

 William Squire Plane, Esq. 



The great success of this Society will be seen 

 in the following Statement of Business done 

 and Bonuses added in Four Years of actual 

 operations : 



PROGRESS OF BUSINESS. 



Most Moderate Premiums. Policies granted 

 from 20J. and upwards. No additional charges 

 to persons in the Army, Navy, or Militia, 

 unless in actual service. ALL POLICIES 

 INDISPUTABLE. Whole Profits divisible 

 triennially among the Assured. Emigrants 

 covered, at a very moderate additional charge, 

 afainst the risks of voyage. 



The INDUSTRIAL BRANCH offers pecu- 

 liarly favourable advantages to the humbler 

 classes. Claims properly paid. 



FIRE. 



Trustees, 

 Isaac Belsey, Esq . 

 William Squire Plane, Esq. 

 John Saddington, Esq. 

 Also most reasonable Premiums. Policies 

 issued for small sums and short periods. Gua- 

 rantee Fund 100,000?. Portions of Premiums 

 periodically returned to the Insured. Last 

 return 25 per cent. Claims promptly paid. 

 Agents are required in various localities. 

 Policies may be eifected daily, and full in- 

 formation obtained, upon application at the 

 Chief Office, the Branches, or at any of the 

 numerous Agencies throughout the United 

 Kingdom. 



GEORGE CUMMING, Manager. 



BENNETT'S MODEL 

 WATCH, as shown at the GREAT EX- 

 HIBITION. No. 1. Class X., in Gold and 

 Silver Cases, in five qualities, and adapted to 

 all Climates, may now be had at the MANU- 

 FACTORY, 65. CHEAPSIDE. Superior Gold 

 London-made Patent levers, 17, 15, and 12 

 guineas. Ditto, in Silver Cases, 8, 6, and 4 

 guineas. First-rate Geneva Levers, in Gold 

 Cases, 12, 10, and 8 guineas. Ditto, in Silver 

 Cases, 3, 6, and 5 guineas. Superior Lever, with 

 Chronometer Balance, Gold, 27, 23, and 19 

 guineas. Bennett's PocketChronometer,Oold, 

 60 guineas ; Silver, 40 guineas. Every Watch 

 skilfully examined, timed, and its performance 

 guaranteed. Barometers, 22., 32., and 4{. Ther- 

 mometers from U. each. 



BENNETT, Watch, Clock, and Inrtrument 

 Maker to the Royal Observatory, the Board of 

 Ordnance, the Admiralty, and the Queen, 



65. CHEAPSIDE. 



W 



CHVBB'S I.OCKS, 



ITH all the recent Improve- 



ments, strong Fire-proof Safes, Cash 

 and Deed Boxes. Complete lists of sizes and 

 prices may be had on application. 

 CHUBB & SON, 57. St. Paul's Churchyard, 

 London; 28. Lord Street, Liverpool i 16. Mar- 

 ket Street, Manchester; and Horseley Fields, 

 Wolverhampton. 



T 



RAVELLERS' AND MA- 



RINE INSURANCE COMPANY. 



Chief Office. - 5. GRESHAM STREET. 

 LONDON, 



Trustees. 

 The Rt. Hon. the Earl Fitzwilliam, K. G. 

 Sir Charles Fox. 



Matthew Marshall, Esq., Bank of England. 

 William Smee, Esq., Bank of England. 



EXAMPLE OF RATES. 



DEATH FROM ANY ACCIDENT. 



Annual Sum Sick Allowance, 



Premium. Insured. per Week. 



£ s. d. 

 2 



£ s. d. 

 5 



DEATH FROM RAILWAY ACCIDENT. 



TOTAL LOSS OF HEALTH. 



Fob iNFOmMATioN, Prospectuses, Forms, 

 etc., apply to the Chief Office, 5. Gresham 

 Street, London. 



WESTERN LIFE ASSU- 

 RANCE AND ANNUITY SOCIETY, 

 S. PARLIAMENT STREET, LONDON. 

 Founded A.D. 1842. 



Directors. 



T. Grissell, Esq. 



J. Hunt, Esq. 



J. A. Lethbridge.Esq, 



E. Lucas, Esq. 



J. Lys Seager, Esq. 



J. B. White, Esq. 



J. Carter Wood, Esq. 



H. E. BicknelLEsq. 

 T. 8. Cocks, Jun. Esq. 



M.P. 

 G. H. Drew, Esq. 

 W. Evans, Esq. 

 W. Freeman, Esq. 

 F. Fuller. Esq. 

 J. H. Qoodliart.Esq. 



Trustees. 



W.Whateley.Esq., Q.C. i George Drew, Esq.; 



T. Grissell, Esq. 



Pftf/sicfan.— William Rich. Basham.M.D. 



Bankers. Messrs. Cocks, Biddulph, and Co., 



Charing Cross. 



VALUABLE PRIVILEGE. 



POLICIES effected in this Office do not be- 

 come void through temporary difficulty in pay- 

 ing a Premium, as permission is given upon 

 application to suspend the payment at interest, 

 according to the conditions detailed in the Pro- 

 spectus. 



Specimens of Rates of Premium for Assuring 

 loof.. with a Share in three-fourths of the 

 Profits : 



Age 

 17 - 

 22 - 

 27- 



ARTHUR 8CRATCHLEY, M.A.,F.R.A.8., 

 Actuary. 



Now ready, price 10«. 6ff., Second Edition, 

 with material additions, INDUSTRIAL IN- 

 VESTMENT and EMIGRATION: being a 

 TREATISK on BENEFIT BUILDING SO- 

 CIETIES, and on the General Principles of 

 Land Investment, exemplified in the Cases of 

 Freehold Land Societies, Building Companies, 

 &c. With a Mnthematical Appendix on Com- 

 pound Interest and Life Assurance. By AR- 

 THUR SCRATCHI.EY, M.A., Actuary to 

 the Western Life Assurance Society , 3. Parlia- 

 ment Street, Loudon. 



WESTMINSTER HOSPITAL, 

 Broad Sanctuary, opposite Westminster 

 Abbey.— The Westminster Hospital was in- 

 stituted in the year 1719, and was the first of 

 the kind in the United Kingdom established 

 and supported by Voluntary Contributions. 

 "The principle of admission is based chiefly on 

 the urgency and nature of the symptoms of the 

 patient, and during the past year 1,123 acci- 

 dents and urgent 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 1,754, out-patients 

 19,545 — total 21 ,299. The demands on the Hos- 

 pital are annually increasing, while the income 

 from all sources has seriously declined. Thus 

 in 1854,— 



£ 8. d. 

 The income was . - - 4667 2 10 

 The expenditure - - - 6112 19 2J 



Deficiency - - 1445 16 4i 

 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, are still un- 

 furnished and unoccupied ; and to open these 

 wards, and thus render the Hospital as efficient 

 as or'ginally designed, would require an in- 

 creased income of 15002. 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 

 Asiaticcholera were admitted, and 104 of the 

 number wtre restored to health and their 

 families. 3496 casesof choleraic diarrhcea were 

 also received, and, through prompt attention, 

 the further progress of disease was prevented. 

 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 parts 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 it. Co., 37. Fleet 

 Street; by Messrs. Bouverie & Co., 11. Hay- 

 market ; by the Joint Treasurers, the Hon. 

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

 or by the Secretary. „ . 



F. J. WILSON, Sec. 



ONE THOUSAND BED- 

 STEADS TO CHOOSE FROM— 

 HEAL & SON have just erected extensive 

 Premises, which enable them to keep upwards 

 of One Thiiusand Bedsteads in stock. One 

 Hundred and Fifty of which are fixed for in- 

 spection, comprising every variety of Brass, 

 Wood, and Iron, with Chintz and Damask 

 Furnitures, complete. Their new Warerooms 

 also contain an assortment of BED-BOOM 

 FURNI TURE, which comprises every reqm- 

 site, from the plainest Japanned Deal for Ser- 

 vants' Rooms, to the newest and most tastefljl 

 designs in Mahogany and other Woods. The 

 whole warranted of the soundest and best ma- 

 nufacture. HEAL & SON'S ILLUSTRATED 

 CATALOGUE OF BEDSTEADS, AND 

 PRICED LIST OF BEDDING, sent Free by 

 Post. 

 HEAL & SON, 196. Tottenham Court Road. 



TRELOAR'S COCOA-NUT 

 FIBRE MATTING, DOOR-MATS, 

 MATTRESSES, and BRUSHES, gained the 

 Prize-Medal at the Great Exhibition. At the 

 Warehouse, 



42. LUDGATE HILL, 

 will be found an Assortment of COCOA-NUT 

 FIBRE MANUFACTURES, unequalled for 

 Variety and Excellence, at the most moderate 



Catalogues Free. 



