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10 annual report 1s1g In King's COLLEGE Hospital the number of patients ail- mittcd in 1845 exceeds that of the corresponding period in 1844 by upwards of '5 000 but the Council regret to notice that concurrently with this augmented activity and consequent expenditure the amount of Annual Subscriptions is increased only by the sum of 54 184 The subjoined extract from the Report of the Hospital will show that notwithstanding all discouragements the Committee of Management lose no op- portunity for promoting the usefulness of the Hospital in the discharge of its double function of affording relief to the suffering poor and of imparting practical instruction to the Medical Students of the College The Committee the Report states have entered into arrangements for the purchase of large piece of ground immediately adjoining the Hospital They have been enabled to accomplish this through the assistance of the Physicians and Snrgeons of the Institution who have made themselves personally responsible for the purchase-money On this ground which is sufficiently extensive to admit of any enlargement of the Hospital which the necessities of the neighbourhood may hereafter require the Committee hope to be enabled to make immediate arrangements for the accommodation of the increasing number of Out-Patients who now either inconveniently crowd the passages and waiting-rooms of the Hospital or have to stand exposed to the weather Such plan if carried out woidd also give additional room in the existing Hospital To meet the expenses which must be necessarily incurred for the attain- ment of this important object and to relieve the Physicians and Surgeons as speedily as possible from the serious responsibility which they base incurred the friends and supporters of the Hospital are earnestly requested to use their strenuous exertions not oiily to improve the annual income of the Charity but to obtain donations to the Building Fund King's College School has received considerable addi- tion to its numbers during the last year the conduct of its Pupils has been with scarcely an exception correct and exemplary The Head Monitor of the School has lately been elected to an open Scholarship at Exeter College Oxford and Pupil who held the same rank in the School in former ן ears has been placed in the First Class at the same Uni- versify The Council can only repeat their conviction ex pressed in former years that Or Major and the other Masters
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