Calendar: 1856-1857 Page 127

MEDICAL DEPARTMENT 127 Committee of Management-1856 The Treasurer of King's C01 Hospital Copeland Esq Aid The Principal of King's Col London Rev Jelf The Chaplain of King's College Hospital Rev John Oliver Sir Thomas Phillips Vice-Chairman James Capel Esq Ε Moore Esq Robert Cheere Esq Innes Pocock Esq William Cotton Esq Nathaniel Powell Esq Cunningham Esq Charles Robinson Esq Henry Denton Esq Sambrooke Esq Egerton Esq Smith Jun Esq Henry Erskine Esq John Stillwell Esq Professor Fergusson Mr Serjeant Storks Heberden Esq Todd Esq Rev Major Francis Wigg Esq Rev Mason Edward Wigram Esq Moody Esq Secretary -William Foster Esq The following Statement of the New Building published June 1855 is reprinted here for more general information Some Account of King's College Hospital with Plan of the First Story of the New Building showing the part of the Building completed and occupied and distinguishing the parts stilt remaining to be built The Old Hospital yrom an early period after the opening of the Medical School at King's College London it was felt that an Hospital in connexion with the College was not less necessary to the success of the parent institution than Museums Laboratories or Lecture Rooms But till the year 1839 no opportunity offered itself of supplying this great want At this time the workhouse of St Clement Danes being no longer required by the parish arrangements were made by the College authorities for renting the building fund for effecting the necessary alterations was raised through the exertions of Dr Todd acting as Honorary Secretary and the building was opened for the reception of patients in the spring of the following year An outline of this building is traced upon the plan and presents striking contrast to the spacious structure now in course of erection Though in many respects unsuited to the purpose to which it was