Calendar: 1848-1849 Page 106

14 MEDICAL DEPAKTMKN tl annual grant from the Holbom Estate Charity does not amount to 600 per auuum wlule by the accompanying statement 01' the expenditure of the past year they will perceive its present usefulness canuot be maintained at less cost than 500 which must necessarily be increased whenever the proposed additions to the Hospital shall be carried into ell'ect Your Committee deeply regret they haye been unable to complete the pur- chase of the ground adjoining the llospital to which they referred in their last Report but they indulge hope that ere long they will be in situation to announce plan for the enlargement of the Hospital so as to provide such accommodation as the increasing number of applicants for relief so urgently demands The Annual Subscribers have slightly increased during the past year but the Committee regret being under the necessity of stating that they have lost several of their old supporters by death removal and other causes they therefore earnestly call upon every friend of the Hospital to use his iulluence to augment the List of Subscribers and they particularly press the claim it ha for support on those resident in the immediate vicinity who have not yet con- tributed to its funds either by Subscription or Donation Re urn of Patients registered from April 13 1S40 to December 31 1847 PARISHES Id-Paiiuuts Out- γ ill י1ו Midwifery EsUb Sept ISO -ד- Total St Giles 224 770 653 417 357 311 220 126 124 143 315 174 159 188 368 218 21 76 440 690 38 23 665 21 520 922 362 132 950 515 588 221 124 176 8י 509 323 341 903 743 719 737 604 778 440 453 259 109 101 95 53 27 49 46 15 38 23 42 26 329 23 743 10 834 888 590 356 788 741 394 313 506 620 591 519 715 125 007 801 179 294 817 233 96 240 777 107 250