s and two
wings, was founded and endowed by Thomas Guy, a bookseller, who expended
18,793 pounds upon the building, and left 219,419 pounds for its
endowment--the largest sum, perhaps, that has ever been expended by any
individual on similar purposes. Recently, however, Guy's Hospital has
met with another benefactor, but little inferior, in point of liberality,
to its founder; a citizen, of the name of Thomas Hunt, having bequeathed
to it, in 1829, the princely sum of 200,000 pounds! The medical school
attached to this hospital, while under the superintendence of the late
Sir Astley Cooper, was one of the most extensive, and probably, also, the
best in the empire. 3. St. Thomas's Hospital, in High Street, Borough,
was formed out of two other charities by Edward VI., and rebuilt in 1693.
Additions were made in 1732, and a large part was rebuilt in 1836. It
contains 18 wards, and 428 beds. It has an income of about 25,000 pounds
a year, derived almost wholly from rents of estates in London and the
country. 4. St. George's Hospital, near Hyde Park Corner, lately
rebuilt, has a fine front, 200 feet in length, facing the Green Park. It
accommodates 460 in-patients. 5. The Middlesex Hospital, near Oxford
Street, founded in 1745, has 285 beds, and relieves numerous
out-patients. 6. London Hospital, in Whitechapel, was founded in 1740.
Its wards accommodate about 250 patients. 7. Westminster Hospital,
rebuilt in 1833, near the Abbey, has 174 beds; but three wards,
containing space for fifty additional beds, are unfurnished,
notwithstanding there is a great demand for hospital accommodation. 8.
The Marylebone and Paddington Hospital, opened in 1850, has 150 beds,
which it is proposed to increase to 376, supposing the necessary funds to
be forthcoming. This, and the four last mentioned hospitals, depend
wholly, or almost wholly, on voluntary subscriptions, which are said to
be very insufficient to meet the demands upon them. The University
College and King's College Hospitals, and Charing Cross Hospital, are
smaller establishments of the same nature, each accommodating about 120
patients, and there are other establishments of the same description.
Medical schools are connected with the above hospitals, in which lectures
are delivered by the officers, and which are attended by several hundreds
of students. Within the last few years the number of medical students
has considerably decreased.

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