Observations on the present condition and future prospects of St. Thomas's Hospital / by John F. South.

  • South, John Flint, 1797-1882.
Date:
1862
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Observations on the present condition and future prospects of St. Thomas's Hospital / by John F. South. 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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    advertisements for new sites, ordered at their General Court on 4th February last, only five months before they will he hospitalless, is fit for the purpose, and suitable for the convenience of the sick and injured poor who are received into the house, independent of the enormous number of out-patients which flocks daily to the Hospital from the present immediate neighbourhood for medical and surgical advice and assistance. To prove the fact that the Hospital cannot he removed from its present site without very great incon- venience to the poor who enjoy its benefits, I copy the following statistical report which has been drawn up from his office books by the Steward, Mr. Walker, whose correctness and precision in the matter of figures is well known to every officer of the House, as it may be to the Governors wffien they take the trouble themselves to look into the matter* The following is Mr. Walker’s document:*— Summary of Patients Discharged (including deaths) from St. Thomas’s Hospital during the Year 1861, with their places of abode, and in Accident Cases the District in which the Accident occurred. 1. A radius of two miles from the Hospital, south side of the River 2. Ditto ditto north side ., 3. South-Western District, from (beyond) the two- mile radius, including Battersea, Wandsworth, Tooting, Mitcham, Clapham, Brixton, Norwood, Dulwich, Camberwell, and part of Lambeth ,. 4. South-Eastern District, from (beyond) the two- mile radius, including PeclUiam, New Cross, Deptford, Greenwich, Woolwich, Plumstead, Charlton, Eltliam, Lee, Lewisham, Sydenham, Beckonliam, Bromley, and part of Rotliorhitho. 5. North-Western District, from (beyond) the two- milo radius, including Pimlico, Kensington, Bayswutor, Hampstead, Highgato, Holloway, Islington, and part of Westminster Acci- dents. Other Cases. Total. 280 92 1,092 717 1,372 809 35 181 216 69 579 648 2 133 135