London and Its Environs Described, vol. 3 (of 6): Containing an Account of Whatever is Most Remarkable for Grandeur, Elegance, Curiosity or Use, in the City and in the Country Twenty Miles Round It — John Shaqi
London and Its Environs Described, vol. 3 (of 6): Containing an Account of Whatever is Most Remarkable for Grandeur, Elegance, Curiosity or Use, in the City and in the Country Twenty Miles Round ItAnonymous
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London and Its Environs Described, vol. 3 (of 6): Containing an Account of Whatever is Most Remarkable for Grandeur, Elegance, Curiosity or Use, in the City and in the Country Twenty Miles Round It
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London (England) -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800; London (England) -- Gazetteers -- Early works to 1800
VI. No Governor, officer, or servant, must at any time presume, on
pain of expulsion, to take of any tradesman, patient, or other person,
any fee, reward, or gratification of any kind, directly, or
indirectly, for any service done, or to be done, on account of this
hospital.
VII. No person subscribing less than two guineas a year, can recommend
more than two in-patients in the year.
VIII. When there is not room for all the patients recommended at one
time to be received into the hospital, those are taken in whose
admission the board are of opinion, will most effectually answer the
end of the charity; and the rest, if proper objects, are admitted
out-patients, till there is room for them in the hospital. Most
consumptive and asthmatic cases are more capable of relief as
out-patients, than as in-patients.
By this noble foundation, there have been discharged from the
hospital, since its first receiving of patients on the first of
January 1733, to the 27th of December 1752, 60,188. Those in the house
on the 27th of December 1752, amounted to 273. The out-patients in the
books at the same time were 645, which in all made 61,106. _From the
account published by the General Board._
This hospital enjoys a fine situation, and has all the benefit of a
clear and pure air: it has the advantage of being a very neat, though
not an expensive building; and though it is extremely plain, it is not
void of ornament. It has two small wings, and a large front, with only
one door, which is in the middle, and to which there is an ascent by a
few steps. On the top of this part of the building is a pediment
raised above the rest of the edifice, and under this ornament is a
stone with an inscription, expressing the noble use to which this
structure is applied.
_St._ GEORGE’S _court_, Newington causeway.
GEORGE _stairs_, 1. Deptford.* 2. Shad Thames.*
GEORGE _street_, 1. Cambridge Heath.* 2. Foster lane, Cheapside.* 3.
Hanover square. 4. Little Chapel street. 5. In the Mint.* 6. Near
Tothill side. 7. Pall Mall. 8. Ratcliff highway. 9. Tyburn road. 10.
White row, Spitalfields.* 11. Windsor street. 12. York buildings. See
GREAT GEORGE _street_.
Some of the new streets of this name, were thus denominated in honour
of King George I. and II.
A list of the pictures belonging to General Guise, at his house in
George street, Hanover square.
On the left hand of the staircase.
A piece of architecture, rather large, adorned with many small figures
very graceful. The architecture, by Viviani. The figures, in his best
manner, by Sebastiano Ricci.
Two heads in one picture, a little smaller than life. They exhibit two
caricaturas, by Spagnoletto.
A portrait of some Spanish nobleman, half length, after the life, nobly
painted and well preserved, by Moriglio.
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