A letter to the members of the society for relieving the widows and orphans of medical men, in London and its vicinity. / By James Ware, Surgeon, F.R.S. Published by Order of the Court of Directors.

  • Ware, James, 1756-1815.
Date:
1810
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Credit: A letter to the members of the society for relieving the widows and orphans of medical men, in London and its vicinity. / By James Ware, Surgeon, F.R.S. Published by Order of the Court of Directors. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    hundred pounds; to which sum must be added the expence of apprenticing children, assisting decayed Members, and defraying the ordinary expences of the Society, in order to make up the annual amount of its expenditure. To answer these various purposes, without adverting to an increase in donations to the widows, which must be earnestly wished by all, it will, I think, be admitted, that the Society cannot be to¬ lerably secure until it possess a capital of at least thirty thousand pounds, in the three per cent consolidated annuities;—and, in order to insure its stability, this capital should be made inalienable, as far as it can be so rendered by human prudence.* * I regret that the two Societies mentioned in the be¬ ginning of this Letter, which were instituted for a simi¬ lar purpose with our own, begin to perceive too plainly the ill effects of acting on a different plan. Gu ded by the benevolent but hasty feelings of the moment, and pay¬ ing too little regard to future contingencies, they have given awa^, in many successive years, much more than was consistent with either their stability or permanent use fulness. In consequence of this it appears, by printed statements, that the Society of the united counties of Herts B 2