Calendar: 1846-1847 Page 59

MEDICAL DEPARTMENT 51 required sum could be obtained from other sources am now authorized by one who has already been great bene- factor to this Institution and who has taken special interest in this articular object to offer the sum of £1 000 for this purpose and the further sum of £150 provided the Council will undertake to complete the required outlay The Hospital which has now become an essential part of the Medical Department of the College is steadily advancing in public estimation and whilst it continues to afford its advantages to the Poor it presents an excellent field for the observation of disease to the Students who make good use of it The number of Patients registered on its books during the past year exceeded that of the former year by 000 Although the Funds of the Hospital have not increased in corresponding proportion with the claims of the sick upon it this has not been for want of lively interest in its behalf from many benevolent friends It wotdd be ungrateful not to acknowledge in the warmest manner the valuable assistance of its many Benefactors and the exertions of many of the Com- mittec of Management especially of the gentlemen who have filled the office of Deputy Chairman Mr Simon Mr Wil- loughby Major Moore and the present occupant of the chair Mr Sambrook Established only seven years the Hospital has now an income derived from Annual Subscriptions alone of £1 270 per annum and to this there has lately been added contribution of £300 per annum from the funds of the Holborn Estate The great increase in the number of appli- cants has rendered it absolutely necessary no longer to delay the enlargement of the Hospital for the reception of greater number of both In and Out-Patients The Com- mittee of the Hospital have accordingly entered into arrange- ments for the purchase of large piece of ground in the neighbourhood upon which the necessary buildings can be erected Their future appeals to the Public ill therefore solicit not only annual contributions for the support of the Institu- tion but donations towards Building fund Public attention has been good deal attracted to the need of improvement in the vicinity of the situation in which King's College Hospital