London and Its Environs Described, vol. 4 (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. 4 (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
Every Governor or subscriber is intitled to send one in-patient at a
time, and out-patients without limitation. All subscriptions are during
pleasure; but all persons are requested to pay at the time of
subscribing. Those who contribute two guineas a year are Governors while
they continue their subscription, and those who give 20l. at one
payment, are Governors during life, and have a vote and interest at the
committees, and their attendance is esteemed a favour; but those who
subscribe less than two guineas _per annum_, are only subscribers.
The poor women recommended by the Governors and subscribers are received
on Wednesdays and Fridays, from eleven o’clock till one. _From the
account of this hospital published by order of the Governors._
For the other lying-in hospitals, besides the two above mentioned, see
the articles LONDON LYING-IN HOSPITAL, and MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL.
LYON’S INN. See _Lion’s Inn_.
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MACCLESFIELD _street_, Gerrard street, Soho.
MADDOX _street_, Swallow street.†
MAGGOT’S _court_, Piccadilly.†
MAGDALEN HOUSE, for the reception of penitent prostitutes, in Prescot
street, Goodman’s fields, is a plain, neat building, with a wall and a
small area before it. To prevent these penitents being exposed to the
public eye, the windows next the street are concealed by wood work
sloping up from the bottom of each, so as to admit the light only at the
top; the sides are also inclosed, so that there is no possibility of
these once unhappy women either seeing or being seen by any person who
passes by. This sloping projection of the blinds, placed in a regular
series before all the windows in each story, and painted white like the
walls, has a very singular appearance; for, at a distance, the house
seems falling into the street.
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