London and Its Environs Described, vol. 6 (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. 6 (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
By this noble charity many hundred thousand of the poor have since
its foundation received relief, and been cured of the various
disorders to which human nature is subject; and though the estates at
first belonging to this foundation were ruined, yet by the liberal
munificence of the citizens since that time, the annual disbursements
have of late amounted to near 8000_l._ The house contains nineteen
wards, and 474 beds, which are constantly kept filled, and they have
always a considerable number of out-patients.
The number of governors in this and the other city hospitals are
unlimited, and therefore uncertain. They chuse their own officers and
servants, both men and women: these are a president, a treasurer,
an hospitaller or chaplain, four physicians, three surgeons, an
apothecary, a clerk, a steward, a matron, a brewer and butcher, a cook,
assistant and servant, an assistant clerk in the compting house, two
porters, four beadles, nineteen sisters, nineteen nurses, nineteen
watch-women, a chapel clerk and sexton, and one watchman.
_St._ THOMAS’S _lane_, Drury lane.*
THOMAS’S _rents_, Fore street, Limehouse.
_St._ THOMAS’S _Southwark_, on the north side of St. Thomas’s street
was erected for the use of the above hospital, from which it is
denominated; but the number of houses and inhabitants having greatly
increased in the precinct of that hospital, it was judged necessary to
make the church parochial for the use of the inhabitants, and to erect
a chapel in the hospital for the use of the patients. This church is
therefore neither a rectory, vicarage, nor donative, but a sort of
impropriation in the gift of the hospital.
This church is a plain brick building enlightened by one series of
large windows, and the corners strengthened and adorned with rustic,
as is the corners of the tower. The principal door has a cornice
supported by scrolls and a circular pediment, and the tower, instead of
a balustrade, is crowned with a blocking course of the Attic kind.
_St._ THOMAS’S _street_, near St. Thomas’s hospital, in the Borough,
Southwark.
THOMAS _street_, 1. Coverleads Fields, Spitalfields. 2. Gainsford
street, Horselydown lane: 3. Shoreditch Fields: 4. Virginia row, East
Smithfield.
THOMPSON’S _rents_, 1. Halfmoon alley.† 2. London Wall.†
THOMPSON’S _yard_, upper ground, Southwark.†
THRALL _street_, Spitalfields.
THREADNEEDLE _alley_, Little Moorfields.
THREADNEEDLE _street_, extends from Princes street opposite the Lord
Mayor’s mansion-house, and running by the back of the Royal Exchange,
reaches into Bishopsgate street.
THREE ANCHOR _alley_, Shoe lane, Fleet street.*
THREE BELL _alley_, Whitechapel.*
THREE BOWL _alley_, Moorfields.*
THREE BOWL _court_, Houndsditch.*
THREE CCC _court_, Garlick hill, Thames street.*
THREE COLTS _alley_, 1. near Bishopsgate street within.* 2. Cinnamon
street.*
THREE COLTS _court_, Three Colts street Limehouse.*
THREE COLTS _corner_, St. John street.*
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