Calendar: 1855-1856 Page 48

44 ANNUAL REPORT APRIL 1855 frame The Court will heartily join in congratulating and thanking the different Committees of the Hospital who have brought this important matter thus far to conclusion The Council feel that their warmest thanks are due to Thomas Godfrey Sambrooke Esq and the Committee of Management for the zeal and attention with which during the past year they have conducted an Institution which is of such vital importance to the interests of the Medical School of King's College The Council regret to learn that the Finances at the disposal of the Committee have been this year very seriously affected- in consequence of the high price of all provisions and of many important medicines owing to the unusual demand made for medical assistance during the time that cholera visited London in the last autumn and during the late severe weather owing to the patients having lately been moved into the new and commodious building in which an average of 800 cubic feet is allowed for each patient and because such large sums have been drawn away from the usual resources of charitable institutions to be given to the Patriotic Fund and other objects connected with the war Important as it undoubtedly is that the families of our de- ceased wounded and absent soldiers should be assisted and supported by private contributions and the Committee of the Hospital state that they fully recognize its impor- tance it is fact that other charities are severely Buffering in consequence The Department of Civil Service and Commerce the opening of which was announced in the last Report has not hitherto attracted much notice The contemplated arrangements with respect to the examination of Candidates for admission into the public offices are still in abeyance but the Council feel confident that whether the proposed examination be Sir George Ballingall tells us that calculations based in each case on the dimensions of select' wards give for the Government General Hospitals Naval and Military an average of 984 cubic feet of space for each patient while the Hospitals of London Dublin and Edinburgh give 944 cubic feet The Military Hospitals in the Bombay Presidency attbrd cubic space of about 120 cubic feet "-Fiuzer's Mayuzine April 1855 40ti