“Annual subscribers of three guineas, or _donors_ of thirty guineas in one sum, may recommend three in-patients annually, and eighteen out-patients. “Annual subscribers of two guineas, or _donors_ of twenty guineas in one sum, may recommend two in-patients annually, and twelve out-patients. “Annual subscribers of one guinea, or _donors_ of ten guineas in one sum to the maternity fund, may recommend three patients annually _to that department_; and three additional patients for each guinea annually subscribed, or each donation of ten guineas in one sum.” But, although great sums have been already subscribed, and although these inducements to subscribe have been held out to the charitable, the Hospital is already in debt; and the advertisements declare that “to maintain the present number of in-patients, and to supply medicine for a very large number of out-patients, the amount of annual subscriptions is quite inadequate.” From what has been seen in the previous part of this Work, it may have been thought that the site of this Hospital, with the whole of its enclosed ground, was the gift of the Bishop of London and the trustees of the Paddington Estate; but from a printed statement, dated the tenth of July, 1846, I find that this is not the case. The ground which was to be given up, according to the provisions of the 7th and 8th Vic. chap. 30, as a site for this Hospital, is said to consist “of upwards of three quarters of an acre;” “its value was stated to have been estimated at £3,885;” but “the trustees of the Hospital were required to pay £1,000, as an indemnity to the Grand Junction Water Works Company, to whom the ground had been leased.” Further, the Committee “deemed it expedient to purchase, at an expense of £2,000 two adjoining pieces of ground, in order that the future governors of the institution should not be restricted in their operations for want of space.” These pieces together, made “an acre and a quarter of land, being nearly half an acre more than the present site of St. George’s Hospital.” Within a few yards of this large building, there is another charitable medical Institution, called the “Paddington Free Dispensary, for the Diseases of women and children.” This Institution, also, is supported by voluntary contributions; and a consulting physician; a consulting surgeon; two physicians; a surgeon; a dentist; and a secretary; give their gratuitous services to this charity. The report of 1851, states that 5,280 patients had been “admitted during the last year;” the expenditure of the whole establishment being but £218 18_s._ 0_d._ In the same street—Market-street,—there is a “Refuge for the Destitute” supported by voluntary contributions. Here the houseless poor, to the number of 100, may obtain a bed and breakfast during the winter months; and here, winter and summer, the manager and his wife have been maintained for some years in very easy circumstances. {174a}