Calendar: 1853-1854 Page 44

42 annual report 1853 The whole of the Wards are intended to be warmed and ventilated by means of open fires and windows alone the latter being glazed with double glass with space between pane and pane and being centrally opposite to each other both longitudinally and transversely throughout the entire building The maximum quantity of cubic feet of air for each patient is 550 the minimum quantity 855 cubic feet The floors throughout are iuteuded to be fireproof By the immediate execution of this portion of the work which the Com- jnittee have reason to hope will be finished by September 30th next mauy of the most glaring defects in the present Hospital will no longer be felt The Old Building will be relieved from the pressure of the Out-patients Accom- modation will be given to this class of patients equal to if not greater than in any Hospital in London 90 of the present number of beds may be placed in the New Wards while the portion of the Old Buildiug which still remains will be relieved from its over-crowded state And thus patients pupils medi- eal officers and all concerned will at once appreciate the benefits intended to result from the rebuilding of King's College Hospital on an enlarged scale The execution of Parts and which will include the whole remainder of the New Building will wholly depend upon the additional Funds liiclt may yet be subscribed III -The Finances The Committee of Management have the utmost pleasure in announcing that almost on the very day on which the Governors are assembled the con- ditiou made with the anonymous friend truly enough describing himself "a Friend of the Hospital and with the other munificent subscribers of sums of 500 and upwards has been at length fulfilled It will be remembered that it was stipulated that the sum of Twenty Thousand Pounds made up by these noble gifts should be invested in Government Securities and should not be used for the purposes of the New Building until the public had by lesser contributions made up another sum of equal amount It is ouly during the past week that the Committee have succeeded in raising the whole of this second sum and they feel great pleasure in recording that the latest contribu- turn to this Fund came to them from that pious and munificent promoter of Christian Education in connexion with the Church of England viz the Uev Samuel Wilsou Warueford LL who has thus been the last as he was one of the first to promote the work which the Committee have in hand Warneford's cheque for 100 received on the 17th inst additional to 500 previously subscribed completed the second Fund of 20 000 Notwithstanding however the great success which has crowned the efforts of the friends of this charity the Committee have not in their hands as far