enacted, that the management of the hospital be referred to a president, treasurer, and 21 governors, forming a committee, appointed by a general court, seven of whom are annually changed. This committee is empowered to choose, and at pleasure to remove, all officers and servants employed in the hospital, except the physicians, surgeons, clerk, and chaplain, who are elected by the general court, to appoint their salaries, to admit objects of charity, and in general to transact the affairs of the hospital, subject to the inspection and control of a general court; and this general court has power to make any bye-laws for the better government of the corporation. This hospital, so liberally endowed by its founder, was established for the reception of 400 sick and diseased objects, besides twenty incurable lunatics, who are provided for in a separate building.

This hospital is under the medical inspection of three physicians, three surgeons, and an apothecary. It contains 13 wards, and 411 beds; and the number of patients admitted into this hospital, at an average of ten years, has been 2,244 yearly, of whom 2,014 have been discharged, and 230 have died. To this hospital belongs a theatre for chemical, medical, and anatomical lectures. One evening in the week medical subjects are debated. The physicians are-Drs. Curry, Marcet, and Cholmeley :—and physician for out-patients, Dr. Laird :-surgeons, T. Forster, W. Lucas, jun. and Astley P. Cooper, esquires.

St. Bartholomew's Hospital.

THIS hospital is situated on the south-east side of Smithfield, and was incorporated in the last year of the reign of Henry VIII. It formerly belonged to the priory of St. Bartholomew, in Smithfield, founded by a person named Rahere, about the year 1102.

This hospital, having escaped the dreadful fire in 1666, was repaired and beautified by the governors in 1691. But the buildings became by length of time so ruinous and dangerous, that a subscription was entered into in 1729 for rebuilding it on a plan comprehending four detached piles of buildings, to be joined by stone gateways, about a court or area. Four piles were accordingly erected. One of these piles contains a large hall for the resort of governors at general courts, a counting-house for the committees, and other necessary offices. The other three piles contain wards for the reception of patients. It is furnished with three physicians, three surgeons, three assistant surgeons, an apothecary, and chaplain. It is capable of accommodating 420 patients.

The physicians are-Drs. E. Roberts, R. Powell, and James Haworth:-surgeons, Sir L. Harvey, John Abernethy, and J. P. Vincent, esquires,

Middlesex Hospital.

THIS hospital for sick and lame, and lying-in

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married women, was instituted for the first description of patients in 1745, and for the second in 1747, and also for patients afflicted with cancer in 1792. It is under the direction of a patron, a president, 12 vice-presidents, two treasurers, and a committee of the governors, or those who subscribe three guineas annually, or thirty guineas at one payment. The lying-in ward of this hospital has no communication with those in the sick and lame. The patients are visited by three physicians, an accoucheur, and three surgeons, besides the physician and surgeon of the cancer ward. The domestic officers are, a chaplain, secretary, apothecary, and matron, who reside in the house, have salaries, and are provided with lodging and board. The house surgeon also resides in the house. A sufficient number of midwives to attend women at their own habitations is provided.

The physicians are-Drs. Charles Gower, P. M. Latham, and H. Southey:-physician extraordinary to the cancer ward, Dr. John Mayo: -physician and accoucheur, Dr. Merriman:surgeons, J. Joberus, R. Cartwright, and Charles Bell, esquires.

Queen's Lying-in Hospital.

THIS hospital was founded in 1752 for the purpose of receiving poor pregnant women, as well married as unmarried, in separate wards, and also of attending them at their own habitations, within a limited circuit. It was first established

at Bayswater, but lately removed to Manor House, Lisson-Green. The government of the charity has been vested in a president, four vicepresidents, a treasurer, and a committee of 18 governors. An annual subscription of three guineas constitutes a governor, entitled to recommend one in-patient, two to be delivered at their own habitations, and six for advice. And a subscription of 31 guineas at one payment entitles to the recommendation of one in-patient, six at their own habitations, and twelve for advice, yearly. It is computed that upwards of 45,000 women have received the benefit of this hospital in its respective branches. Quarterly meetings are held at the hospital, and the committee meet every Tuesday. This hospital was renovated in October 1809; and under the active exertions of its president, the duke of Sussex, has now a fair prospect of permanent utility. Her majesty is patroness; and it is under the care of a consulting physician, and physician in ordinary, a surgeon and man-midwife, an apothecary, secretary, matron, nurses, and collector.

Dr. E. G. Jones is the consulting physician; -Dr. D. D. Davis, physician and accoucheur;and C. M. Clarke, esquire, surgeon accoucheur.

British Lying-in Hospital, Brownlow Street.

THIS hospital was instituted in 1749. The qualification of an annual governor is a subscription of five guineas or upwards per annum; and of a perpetual governor, a single payment

of 40 guineas, each of whom may present two women in a year. The committee of this hospital have preserved an account of those who have died, from which it appears, that in the first ten years of the institution, one woman died in 42; in the fifth ten years, one in 288; in the sixth and last ten years, one in 216; and from the 26th of September 1806, to the 25th of March 1808, not one woman died out of 501. In the first ten years one child died in 15; in the fifth ten years, one died in 77; and in the last nine years and a quarter, one died in 92. The proportion of boys to girls born is 18 to 17; of still born, of about one to 25; of women bearing twins, one to 84; the whole number being 342.

If similar tables were preserved by institutions of like kind, they would furnish useful data in calculations relating to population and political economy. Consulting physician, Dr. C. Combe:physicians, Drs. R. Batty and J. Foley-surgeon, R. Simmons, esquire.

City of London Lying-in Hospital, City Road.

THIS hospital was instituted in 1750. The subscription of 30 guineas constitutes a governor for life. Those who subscribe five guineas, or three guineas, per annum, are governors as long as they continue their subscription. Each governor for life has the privilege of relieving eight patients in the year, and of having two of them on the books at a time. Subscribers of five guineas may relieve five patients, and those who sub