Calendar: 1851-1852 Page 125

medical department 123 And tliey who are engaged in the duties of the Hospital daily feel the painful inconveniences that arise from its insufficient accommodation and applicants 11י great Buffeting are often of necessity refused admittance The Committee have availed themselves of an adjoining House purchased for the new Hospital to provide increased though still very insufficient accommodation and classification for the Out-Patients the number of whom as will be served has in 1850 increased by 16 000 as compared with 1841 and by 107 as compared with 1849 They have likewise been enabled to provide separate room for the Chaplain which is of the utmost importance to him in his unremitting attention to the Hospital and intercourse with the Patients The Chaplain is there arranged the small but useful Collection of Books which have been from time to time contributed by the Society for Promoting Christian Know- ledge and Governors and Friends of the Hospital and by means of his well- arranged Catalogue the Patients may now select bdoks for their comfort or amusement The Committee have gratefully to acknowledge some parcels of Old Linen which have been sent to the Hospital for Bandages &c and are persuaded that if the want of this indispensable article was more generally understood the difficulty of obtaining sufficient quantity of material so useful to an Hospital and so little valued iu private would soon cease to exist Since the last Annual Report much progress has been made towards the important object of the erection of commodious Hospital by the exertions of the Building and Endowment Pund Committee The munificent commence- ment of that Pund and the zealous exertions of that Committee were announced last year The Festival held in May 1850 combining Meeting at King5s College and Dinner in Lincoln Inn Hall attended by 503 persons aud an Oratorio at Exeter Hall added largely to the Pund The Subscriptions to that Pund now amount to upwards of £33 000 towards the sum of £50 000 proposed to be raised and required The Freehold of the present Hospital and of several surrounding Houses and Premises has been purchased at heavy cost and this with the necessary cost of acquiring other property and the completion of an edifice worthy of the established reputation and increasing usefulness of the Hospital and of its connexion with King College will with every regard to economy exhaust the whole amount originally contemplated The Committee earnestly beg the Governors to support the exertions of the Council of the College the Building Pund Committee and this Committee in raising the much-desired means for putting this Charitable and useful Institution on suitable and permanent basis The Building and Endowment Pund Committee have transmitted to this Committee their Annual lleport for the Governors of the Hospital which this Committee have much pleasure in submitting to the Court It has been found expedient in order to procure powers of purchasing and