However, there is a vast amount of charity in London, and incalculable good is done those who are in need of it.
I can only give the aggregate of all these charities, hospitals and almshouses, as I have not space for details.
INCOME OF CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS.
The incomes and receipts of the various Metropolitan Charitable Institutions amount to about twelve millions of dollars annually, much of which is contributed voluntarily, and this vast sum does not include contributions to police courts for the use of prisoners, amounting to £50,000 a year, or the erection and endowment of schools, and other similar gifts by individuals, deeds which are impossible to classify, from their isolation. Besides the regular incomes, as below, the proceeds of former legacies amounts to £841,373, or nearly six million dollars of United States money.
This large amount of nearly eighteen millions of dollars, double the entire sum realized from poor rates obtained in London, is divided among 640 institutions, of which 144 have been founded during the last ten years, 279 during the first half of the century, 114 during the Eighteenth Century, and 103 before that period.
The classification—generally speaking—and aggregate incomes are as follows:
| INSTITUTIONS. | ANNUAL INCOME. | |
| 14 | General Hospitals, | £174,858 |
| 66 | Hospitals and Institutions for Special Medical purposes, | 155,025 |
| 39 | Dispensaries, | 23,877 |
| 12 | Institutions for the Preservation of Life, Health, and Morals, | 46,230 |
| 1 | Foundling Hospital, | 20,200 |
| 22 | Hospitals, Penitentiaries, and 16 Reformatories—total, | 93,981 |
| 29 | Relief Institutions, | 64,720 |
| 21 | Homes, for both sexes, and all ages, | 18,200 |
| 9 | Benevolent Pension Funds, | 26,000 |
| 20 | Poor Clergymen's Benefit Funds, | 49,508 |
| 72 | Professional and Trade Benevolent Funds, | 125,051 |
| 24 | City Company and Parochial Trust Funds, | 40,820 |
| 4 | Special National Funds, | 53,000 |
| 124 | Colleges, Almshouses, and Asylums, for the Aged, | 103,063 |
| 1 | Cripple's Charity, | 7,215 |
| 16 | Deaf and Dumb Institutions, | 43,521 |
| 35 | General Educational Funds, | 112,600 |
| 16 | Asylums, educating 2,400 orphans, | 80,634 |
| 24 | Educational Asylums for 3,700 children, | 120,000 |
| 60 | Home Missionary Societies, | 413,171 |
| 30 | Foreign Missionary Societies, | 642,217 |
| 19 | Jewish Charities, Hospitals, Schools, Almshouses, and Refuges, | 163,000 |
| 3 | Grammar Schools, on original Foundations, | 862,000 |
| 2 | Educational Establishments,8 parochial schools, libraries, lectures, and miscellaneous societies, of a charitable or benevolent character, | 732,000 |
Some of these hospitals are not equaled by any in the world excepting those of Paris, and have splendid beds and the best of medical Staffs.
Guy's Hospital is called after a London Alderman and Member of Parliament, who made a fortune, in Oliver Cromwell's time, selling Bibles, buying sailors' pawn-tickets, and in the South Sea Speculation Bubble. It has 22 wards and 600 beds, and averages, yearly, 6,000 in-door and 55,000 out-door beds, with 24 professors and 250 students. The legacies left to this hospital amount to £500,000, and its annual income is over £30,000. Kings' College Hospital has 180 beds, and about 2,000 in-door and 40,000 out-door patients, annually. Its income is about £5,000 a year. The London Hospital has 500 beds.