An account of the circumstances attending the imprisonment and death of the late William Millard, formerly superintendent of the Theatre of Anatomy of St. Thomas's Hospital, Southwark.

Date:
1825
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Credit: An account of the circumstances attending the imprisonment and death of the late William Millard, formerly superintendent of the Theatre of Anatomy of St. Thomas's Hospital, Southwark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    and, consequently, its income, being, as it is stated in the work above referred to, on the average, about £10,000 a year. The management and application of these funds are entrusted to the Governors of this Institution, whose authority is exercised by a committee of between twenty and thirty chosen from their own body, and by the officers of the Hospital, of whom the Governors have the appoint- ment. These Governors by the regulations framed when the Hospital was incorporated in the reign of Edward the Sixth, are not to be less than sixty-two in number: in the middle of the last century they amounted to three hundred and thirty, but at present they are stated not to be so numerous. On the death of any of these, the survivors are required by the regulations to assemble and elect others to supply the vacancy. The appointments of St. Thomas's Hospital are the following: 1. The President, Alderman Christopher Smith. 2. The Treasurer, Abel Chapman, Esq. 3. The Chaplain, Rev. R. W. Lyall. 4. The Steward, Mr. William Nash. 5. The Clerk, Mr. John Wainewright. 6. The Receiver, Mr. Joseph Beevers. 7. The Matron, Miss Savory. 8. The inferior officers, viz. the Butler, Daniel Wheeler; the Beadles, Cook, and Porters, James Paterson, William Bull, John Spooner, John Wilcox. 9. The Servants. 10. The Female Domestics. The medical officers consist of four physicians, three surgeons and their assistants, an apothecary, &c. &c. The present Physicians are, Robert Williams, M. D. John Scott, M. D. John Elliotson, M. D. be veiy desirable that a clause in the Charter of the Royal Founder of this Charity should be put in force, which ordains, That the king sliall appoint commissioners from time to time to visit tlie said Hospital, to see how the revenues of the same lands be spent and employed. That such encpiiries would not be altogether supertiiious may he conjectured, when it is stated that within a few years three stewards of the sister institution (Guy's Hospital) proved defaulters, two of them committed suicide, and the last, after being found deficient to the amount of £1100 as steward, and nearly £100 as overseer of the parish, was privately put away, or, in other words was, as we have been informed, literally kicked out of one of the back doors of the Institution which he had robbed. This occurred in May, 1824. It is little imagined, as is somewhere said by our old and sagacious friend Gil Bias, how many become rich by being entrusted with the superintcndancc of the poor.