An account of the Benevolent Institution : with a list of the governors annexed.

  • Benevolent Institution for the Sole Purpose of Delivering Poor Married Women at Their Own Habitations (London, England)
Date:
1801
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An account of the Benevolent Institution : with a list of the governors annexed. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The Boundaries of this Charity, beyound which the Midwives ere not to go, are the undermentioned Distances, viz. ^ Clapham, Lambeth, Chelsea, Brompton, Knightsbriclge, Ken- 4sington, Mary-ie-bone, Paddington, Tottenham Court, Gray's^- Inn-Lane End, Islington, City Road, Shoreditch, Bethnal-Green and Whitechapel Turnpikes, Ratcliffe Cross, Dock Head, Grange Road, Kent Street and Newington Butts Turnpikes, and the Road from Blackman Street to Westminster Bridge. Recommendatory letters from Governors are received at Dr. Atkinson's, N°. 26, Jermyn-street, Saint James's, on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, between the hours of nine and ten o’clock in the morning; and the midwife is not obliged to attend > the patient when sent for, unless the said letter be produced. N. B. If the patient should make complaint of any ill treatment from the midwife who attended her, to the Governor she was recommended by, he is requested to send a line to the Committee, who meet at the Hungerford Coffee House, Strand, the first Monday in every Month, or to the Secretary, (Mr. Thomas Samuel Lemage, N°. 12, Queen-street, Soho,) with the said midwife’s name, and the name and place of abode of the person complaining, in prder that he inay summon all the parties against the next Committee meeting. Any person inclined by their last will to bequeath a legacy to this charity, is desired to do it in the following Form: Item, I give and bequeath unto A. B, and C. D, the Sum of upon Trust, to the Intent that they, or one of them, do pay the same to the Treasurer (for the Time being) of a Society who now call themselves B Ths