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according to the regulation abovemention-
ed: and when in-patients are recom-
mended, and there is not room in the
house to receive them, they are put on the
list to be admitted on the first vacancy,
and in the mean time are prescribed for as
out-patients.
No security is required for burials.
All accidents are admitted without re-
commendation.
Tuesday being the day appointed for
the admission of patients, they are expect-
ed to be at the hospital, with their recom-
mendations, 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) af-
ter they have been examined by the week-
ly board, and on their producing an affi-
davit 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 ob-
tained, 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
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liable to any objection, no pupils will be
admitted; the whole being under the di-
rection of Dr. Brudenell Exton, Physician
and Man-midwife: and no woman what-
soever, 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 ad-
mittance.
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 follows:
| In-patients, sick and lame | 1829 |
| Out-patients | 11785 |
| Lying-in women | 1425 |
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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 fa-
vour this charitable design, are desired
to send their subscriptions, with their
names and place of abode, to the Treasu-
rers, 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 request-
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