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This page continues the article entitled London Lying In Hospital, which started on Page 160.
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I.  Such persons as subscribe thirty gui-
neas are Governors for life, and may re-
commend one pregnant woman to be up-
on the books at a time.
II.  Those who subscribe five or three
guineas per annum, are Governors so long
as they continue their subscriptions, and
intitled to recommend as in the first ar-
ticle.
III.  Annual Governors may make up
their subscriptions thirty guineas, within
one year from their last payment, and
thereupon become Governors for life.
IV.  All ladies are at liberty in all elec-
tions of officers, to vote by proxy signified
in writing.
N.B.  All lesser benefactions are thank-
fully received.  And for the satisfaction
of the public, that the women are well
and properly taken care of, ladies, though
not Governesses, are permitted to go into
the wards.
Rules of the Hospital.
A general court of the Governors is
held four times a year; namely, in the
months of March, June, September, and
December, to received the report of the
quarterly committees, elect a new com-
mittee, and transact such other business as
may then be laid before them.
A house committee is appointed at

every
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every general quarterly court, consisting
of thirteen Governors, three of whom are
a quorum.  This committee meets every
Tuesday morning at eleven o'clock in the
forenoon, at the hospital, to receive and
discharge women, inspect the diet and
provisions, order any furniture and conve-
niences that may from time to time be
wanted, and to examine into and regulate
the conduct of all the servants and patients
of the house.  These committees are to
make their reports to the general quarterly
courts.
The number of beds at present in the
hospital is thirty-three.
A Physician, a Man-midwife, and a
Surgeon in ordinary, attend daily at the
hospital; besides whom the house is sup-
plied with a Physician and Man-midwife
extraordinary, a Surgeon extraordinary,
and an apothecary, who supplies the pa-
tients with such medicines as shall be
found necessary in their respective cases.
And that the patients may not want ne-
cessary comfort under their afflictions, a
Clergyman has undertaken the kind and
charitable office of attending the house as
Chaplain, baptizes the children born
there, churches the women, and reads
prayers publickly twice a week.  All
these gentlemen attend without fee or re-
ward.
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