Calendar: 1848-1849 Page 93

MEDICAL DEPARTMENT 89 years filled the offices of Demonstrator of Anatomy in the College and Assistant-Surgeon in the Hospital has left us to fill more lucrative and relatively more important post in the Medical School of St Thomas's Hospital Mr Simon was educated in the College and contributed much by his original researches and by the able manner in which he performed the duties of Demonstrator to raise the character of the Medical School and did much also to perpetuate the high character which the School at present enjoys by imparting to many of our Students with whom his office placed him in daily communication some of that zeal and that love for original research by which he is himself distinguished It is satisfactory to the Professors that the distinction which he obtained while associated with them was mainly instrumental in obtaining for him the post which he now occupies King's College Hospital continues to increase in favour with the poor of the district in which it is placed It appears by the Ninth Annual Report of the Hospital just published by the Committee of Management that the number of Patients treated there in the year 1847 was 19 154 number exceed- ing by more than 300 that of 1846 by more than 000 that of 1845 and by more than 000 that of 1811 The present building is very inadequate to accommodate such large number of Patients As long ago as 1845 the inadequate size of the Hospital was severely felt and in the spring of 1846 Meeting was held in this Hall under the residency of His Grace the late Archbishop of Canterbury for the purpose of raising money to purchase piece of ground immediately adjoining the Hospital and to erect upon it such additions to the resent building as were then deemed requisite additions which it was intended should ultimately form part of an entirely new Hospital At this Meeting Committee of which His Royal Highness the Duke of Cam- bridge condescended to act as Chairman was appointed to collect subscriptions and by their efforts the sum of nearly 000 was raised In consequence however of some legal difficulties the Committee of Management were unable to