Records of the Miller Hospital and Royal Kent Dispensary : with nine illustrations and one map / by John Poland.

  • Poland, John, 1855-1937.
Date:
1893
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Records of the Miller Hospital and Royal Kent Dispensary : with nine illustrations and one map / by John Poland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    Royal Kent Dispensary has been carried on for upwards of 100 years, will be a guarantee that the best possible use will be made of any money contributed for this purpose; whilst the ever increasing demand for the assistance of the Institution shows, without doubt, that it stands very high in the estimation of the poor. Although the inhabitants of the district cordially support the Institution,the Committee feel that sufficient money cannot be collected locally to carry out the proposed Enlargement of the Hospital to the extent stated to be desirable in the Report of the Committee of the House of Lords. They therefore appeal to the general public, and more especially to the Guilds and Merchants of the City of London, to subscribe the amount needed, and they feel confident that, when the necessities of the district, which contains so many thousands of the very poorest in London, are made known, they will not appeal in vain.” For the present it has been decided to add a few more beds to the present small number to avoid a disaster which might occur from so small a Hospital being placed in the midst of the densely populated and impoverished South-Eastern London. It has happened more than once, a few years ago, that a patient, with inflammation of the lungs or other serious illness, has died on the way to London, there being no Hospital accommodation in the district. The pressing demands of the poor in this populous district will be met, to some extent, by the carrying out of this portion of the above plan.