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]f72 TALLIs's ILLUSTRATED LONDON ;
£30,000. There are two entrances, the principal one in
St. Thomas's-street, and the other, or back entrance, in
King-street. In the square of the first entrance there is
a brass statue of Guy by Scheemakers. The residences of
the treasurer, chaplain, steward, and other officers, and a
chapel, occupy two sides of the square; and the centre,
or main building, is composed of a number of wards for
the reception of in-patients, surgery, laboratories, medical
and operating theatres, a post mortem examination cham-
ber, waiting-rooms for out-patients, &c. The buildings
on the south side comprehend the museum, theatre, dis-
secting-room, a museum of comparative anatomy, various
sick and convalescent wards, and a lunatic-house for the
reception of 24 insane persons. The hospital makes up
580 beds. The out-patients are calculated to amount to
40,000 a year. The medical and surgical schools attached
to this hospital are attended by numerous students, who
are required to " walk the hospitals," as an initiative to
future practice.
The Westminster Hospital, standing on the ground once
covered by the Old Broad Sanctuary, is opposite to the
western entrance of the Abbey. It was founded in 1719,
and was the first hospital in London which depended for
support on voluntary aid. The present structure, an
Elizabethan edifice of handsome proportions, was erected
in 1834. It makes up 174 beds, and in three unoccupied
wards there is room for 50 additional ones. In 1849,
1,746 in-patients, and 14,009 out-patients were on the
books. The yearly revenue averages £4,000, a moiety of
which issues from voluntary subscriptions.
St. George's Hospital, Hyde Park Corner, Grosvenor-
square, was founded in 1733, on the same plan as the
Westminster, by a dissentient party from that institution.
The original structure was Lanesborough House, which
formed the centre of the old hospital, wings afterwards
being added to it to render it more convenient for the new
purposes to which it had been appropriated. Lanesborough
House was the country mansion of Theopliilus, first Lord
£30,000. There are two entrances, the principal one in
St. Thomas's-street, and the other, or back entrance, in
King-street. In the square of the first entrance there is
a brass statue of Guy by Scheemakers. The residences of
the treasurer, chaplain, steward, and other officers, and a
chapel, occupy two sides of the square; and the centre,
or main building, is composed of a number of wards for
the reception of in-patients, surgery, laboratories, medical
and operating theatres, a post mortem examination cham-
ber, waiting-rooms for out-patients, &c. The buildings
on the south side comprehend the museum, theatre, dis-
secting-room, a museum of comparative anatomy, various
sick and convalescent wards, and a lunatic-house for the
reception of 24 insane persons. The hospital makes up
580 beds. The out-patients are calculated to amount to
40,000 a year. The medical and surgical schools attached
to this hospital are attended by numerous students, who
are required to " walk the hospitals," as an initiative to
future practice.
The Westminster Hospital, standing on the ground once
covered by the Old Broad Sanctuary, is opposite to the
western entrance of the Abbey. It was founded in 1719,
and was the first hospital in London which depended for
support on voluntary aid. The present structure, an
Elizabethan edifice of handsome proportions, was erected
in 1834. It makes up 174 beds, and in three unoccupied
wards there is room for 50 additional ones. In 1849,
1,746 in-patients, and 14,009 out-patients were on the
books. The yearly revenue averages £4,000, a moiety of
which issues from voluntary subscriptions.
St. George's Hospital, Hyde Park Corner, Grosvenor-
square, was founded in 1733, on the same plan as the
Westminster, by a dissentient party from that institution.
The original structure was Lanesborough House, which
formed the centre of the old hospital, wings afterwards
being added to it to render it more convenient for the new
purposes to which it had been appropriated. Lanesborough
House was the country mansion of Theopliilus, first Lord