Tuesday being the day appointed for the admission of patients, they are expected to be at the hospital, with their recommendations, at ten of the clock.
The Physicians and Surgeons meet every Saturday at twelve of the clock, at the hospital, where they give advice gratis to all such diseased poor who shall come, though unrecommended, and require it.
Married women only are admitted (in the last month of their pregnancy) after they have been examined by the weekly board, and on their producing an affidavit made before a Justice of the peace, of the time and place of their marriage, and of the settlement of the husband, with the manner the said settlement was obtained, whether by birth, servitude, or otherwise. And that this useful branch of the charity, the midwifery ward, may be made every way beneficial, and not liable to any objection, no pupils will be admitted; the whole being under the direction of Dr. Brudenell Exton, Physician and Man-midwife: and no woman whatsoever, who has been able to prove her marriage, and her husband’s settlement, so as to avoid burthening the parish wherein the hospital stands, has been refused admittance.
The number of beds at present are sixty-four.
The patients admitted from the first institution of this hospital, in August 1745, to the 1st of June 1758, are as follow:
| In-patients, sick and lame | 1829 |
| Out-patients | 11785 |
| Lying-in women | 1425 |
| 15039 |
The servants of the house are forbid to take any gratuity of the patients or their friends, on any pretence whatsoever, on pain of expulsion.
Such persons who are inclined to favour this charitable design, are desired to send their subscriptions, with their names and places of abode, to the Treasurers, at the weekly committee, held every Tuesday in the forenoon at the hospital; and in order to supply the current expence of this charity, the subscribers are requested to continue to pay their yearly subscriptions in advance.
Subscriptions and benefactions are likewise taken in at Messrs. Honywood, Fuller, and Co. bankers in Birchin lane; and at Mr. Gislingham Cooper’s, banker in the Strand. From the account published by the Society in June 1758.
The reader may find the other hospitals for lying-in women, founded after the example set by this excellent charity, under the articles London Lying-in Hospital, Lying-in Hospital in Brownlow street, and Lying-in Hospital in Duke street.