Calendar: 1849-1850 Page 114

112 MEDICAL DEPA11TM1 Ν Γ current business No card of admission to Lectures can be obtained from the Secretary's office without his written order and when obtained must be signed by the Dean previously to being taken to the other Professors All Certificates like wise must be signed by the Dean previously to being signed by the Professors During the Academical year 1819-50 the Dean will give daily attendance in the Marsden Library from 10 to 11 o'clock XVI King's College Hospital This Hospital is situate in the immediate neighbourhood of the College and in the midst of densely-populated neigh- baurhood Tenth Annual Report of King's College Hospital 13-19 The Committee of Management at tlie close of another year's labours con- gratulate the Governors that they have been enabled to continue the benefits of tlie Hospital to the lull extent of its internal accommodation and tu uu increased number of Out-Patients The number of Patients admitted to the beds of the Hospital during the year 1S13 has been J3 precisely the same as during the year 1817 The number of those relieved as Out-Patieuts including 119 poor married womeu attended iu their confinement at their own homes amounted to 19 383 ex- ceeding the number of Out-Patients in the year 1817 by 82 and it would be hardly possible with the present accommodation to all'ord assistance to greater number owing to the crowded state of the rooms appropriated to this class of Patients Prom the large number of Patieuts relieved it has been reported that it usual to re-euter the names of Patients every mouth but the Committee take this opportunity of publicly stating that such practice does not prevail at this Hospital it being the invariable rule never to enter the name of Patient second time ou the ltegister however long he may attend for the same disease or injury The Committee regret to state that the Annual Subscriptions of the Hospital have to certain extent decreased But for the muuiticeut contri- bution of the Earl of Ellesmere on the abandonment of the proposed public order memorial the balance sheet would have exhibited serious deficiency even this large donation to the funds of the Hospital has uot saved it from being iu debt The deficiency of income of the three last years has left the Hospital at the c'ose of the year 1S4-S iu debt to the extent of 380 is -a sum however