Calendar: 1850-1851 Page 32

28 ANNUAL REPORT 1850 II That the Council are convinced that the objects which they had in view in establishing the Medical Department have been so far attained as to render its maintenance in still more efficient state of the greatest importance The Council rest their conviction of the advantages already obtained upon the following grounds -That large body of medical men are already dis- persed over the kingdom who furnish indisputable evidence to the good effects of the training religious and professional which they have enjoyed in King's College -That there is an increasing number of Students at- tracted by the reputation of the College who are cheerfully undergoing an improved course of discipline and who promise not only to maintain but even to raise the character of the Institution III That from the concurrent testimony of the medical members of their own body and of the several gentlemen engaged in the instruction of the medical students the Council are convinced that the present Hospital is insufficient for the purposes of the Medical School of King's College even with its present number of Students IV That from the testimony of the gentlemen who have year by year filled the office of Dean of the Medical Depart- merit confirmed as this testimony is both by the Principal and the Secretary the Council believe that the number of Students in Medicine at this College would be largely in- creased if the Hospital were enlarged and the means of instruction extended That under these circumstances the Council have no hesitation in recommending the General Court of Governors and Proprietors to sanction grant in furtherance of the plan which is now proposed for the Building and Endowment of new Hospital VI That considering the magnitude of the work to be undertaken and the munificent offer made to them by an unknown י Friend to the Hospital the Council recommend the General Court of Governors and Proprietors to sanction