Calendar: 1850-1851 Page 31

ANNUAL REPORT 1850 27 Happily however this difficulty is in the course of removal At the suggestion of an anonymous person calling himself Friend of the Hospital who has munificently offered 000 great effort is now in progress towards raising fund for the Building and Endowment of new Hospital Com- mittee having been formed in May last consisting partly of members of the Council and of the Committee of Management of the Hospital and partly of other friends of the cause in- eluding the Professors of the Medical Department steps were taken to set on foot this work and some progress had already been made in raising subscriptions when fresh impulse was given to the design by an offer on the part of the before-named munificent Friend of the Hospital to raise his previously offered donation of 000 to 000 on condition that the Council would advance the like sum Thus called upon the Council felt that they would not be justified in refusing to consider the proposal The result of much anxious delibera- tion was the conviction that they owed it alike to the further- ance of medical science under moral discipline and religious teaching to the just expectations of present and future Medical Students to the extension and even to the maintenance of this School of Medicine and consequently to the general welfare of all the departments of the College to invest by degrees this large sum to be returned hereafter with manifold interest in helping to provide adequate means of clinical instruction for the increasing number of Students which the improve- ments in the discipline of the College are already attracting Accordingly at Special Meeting of the Council convened for Friday Dec 1849 the following Resolutions were passed which have been already circulated amongst the Proprietors but which it is thought well to place upon record at this Annual Meeting they are as follows That the Hospital in connexion with King's College London has become an essential part of the Institution since without it the clinical instruction and actual experience neces- sary for medical students cannot be satisfactorily obtained that in fact the wards of the Hospital are so many additional lecture-rooms attached to the College