A short statement of the nature, objects, and proceedings of the Scottish Hospital in London / Drawn up at the request, and printed by the order of a general court of governors.

  • Scottish Corporation in London.
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[1812]
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Credit: A short statement of the nature, objects, and proceedings of the Scottish Hospital in London / Drawn up at the request, and printed by the order of a general court of governors. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A SHORT STATEMENT OF THE NATURE, OBJECTS, AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE SCOTTISH HOSPITAL IN LONDON. Drawn up at the Request, and Printed by the Order of a General Court of Governors. PRESIDENT. Ills Royal Highness the DUKE of CLARENCE. VICE-PRESIDENTS. The EARL of ROTHES. ® LORD DUN DAS. The EARL of ABERDEEN. § LORD KEITH. LORD VISCOUNT MELVILLE. § The Hon. WILLIAM MAULE, M. P. The Scottish Hospital in London was originally founded by Royal Charter from King Charles II. in the year 1665, and afterwards re-incorporated by his present Majesty George III. in 1775. The Ob- ject of the Establishment was the Relief and Support of Poor Persons, natives of Scotland, not having any parochial settle- ment in England. A house was accordingly built for their reception.' But the Promoters cf the Charity soon discovered that an Hospital or Workhouse, was not only in the highest degree repugnant to the feelings in which they had been educated, but that a crowded assemblage of persons of both sexes, and of all ages, was detrimental alike to their virtue and their happiness. The establishment of a Workhouse was accordingly abandoned, and the pensioners of the Institution have ever since enjoyed its bounty at their own habitations, where they can also carry on their respective occupations, as far as their age and infirmities permit them. The Institution is governed by A President, .Six Vice-Presidents, A Treasurer,—and An Indefinite Number of Governors. A CoinriTTEE of those Governors is annually appointed, and regularly attends at the Society’s Hall (Crane Court, Elect Street,) once every month, for the administration of pecuniary relief. And whenever Medical advice is required, the Physicians of the Hospital attend, and prescribe gratis to the afflicted. The vtiiiod (economy is observed in the management of the concerns of the Institution, from this conviction, that the less which is thus expended, the mere will be distributed among the poor. All the higher offices of the establishment are accordingly executed gratuitously, and the greatest diligence continually exerted to apportion the relief given to the necessity that requires it.