“The Lock Asylum was founded in the year 1787, by the Rev. Thomas Scott, the venerable commentator. It then occupied a building in connection with the old Lock Hospital. In 1842, it was removed to its present site, and in 1848–9, enlarged to its present dimensions. When first founded, the Asylum received only sixteen inmates; in 1842, it was enlarged so as to receive twenty; it is now capable of containing 100. Since the foundation of the Asylum, 1,175 female patients of the Hospital have been admitted, a majority of whom have been provided with situations, restored to their friends, or otherwise comfortably settled in life. There are now forty-seven in the Asylum. Needlework is taken in at the Asylum, and the payment for it constitutes a valuable addition to the receipts of the Institution. A laundry is open also for the washing of those families who may be willing, by sending the work, thus further to benefit the Asylum.” Besides the chapel and the schools, which have sprung out of these charitable institutions, there are now connected with them and the chapel, the following societies, viz. The Westbourn Friendly Visiting Society, the Westbourn Provident Bank, the Lock Sunday schools, the Church Missionary Association, the Juvenile Missionary Association, the Sunday School Children’s Missionary Association, the Church of England Young Men’s Society; and the London City Mission. The Public Establishments in Paddington, unconnected with particular forms of religion, are soon recounted: