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Summary Of News For February.
ordinary disbursements on the ordinary expenditure having been £ 4 , 893 . 9 s . 9 d . The account was received ^ and ordered to be printed and circulated among the governors in the usual form . The in-patients during the year had been 2 , 268 , and the out-patients 16 , 844 , making a total of 19 , 112 . The report of the registrars showed that there had been during the past year 11 , 600 medical cases , and 1 , 107 surgical cases .
The same day the Koyal Maternity Charity met and reported that last year there were delivered in the ^ hospital 3 , 297 women , 433 more than in 1850 ; and , from the report of the medical committee , there had been many cases of a difficult and complicated nature . There was now deposited in the London Provident Institution , Moorfields , to the account of the superahnuation fund , originated for the relief and assistance of the charity ' s infirm and aged midwives , £ 182 . 17 s . 7 d . £ 5 . 15 s . was in the hands of the secretary , and £ 300 invested in the Three per Cent . Consolidated Annuities . Since its commencement , in 1839 , the fund had dispensed in assistance £ 630 . Is .
At the meeting of the Governors of St . Mark ' s Hospital it was determined to raise a fund for the perpetual endowment of that institution . , Later in the month the Seamen ' s Hospital Society met . The annual court of the Governors of the Seamen ' s Hospital Society took place on Wednesday , at the Offices , King William-street , City—Admiral Hope , K . C . B ., in the chair . The report stated that the Society had been instrumental in saving life and restoring health to many thousand seamen of various nations , upwards of 77 , 000 having been admitted into the floating hospital since its establishment , besides 43 , 000 relieved as out-patients . The desire of the committee to obtain another ship in
lieu of the Dreadnought ( of which they had now held possession for upwards of 25 years ) , had been satisfied by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty having granted them H . M . S . Caledonia , a larger and more commodious vessel . Their lordships , however , had consented to alter the name to that under which the hospital had been so long known—the Dreadnought . The greater portion of the expense of fitting up this ship had devolved upon the Society , and the amount had already reached £ 11 , 000 . Little , however , now remained to be done , and the ship would , in the course of a few days , supersede the present Dreadnought . The committee hoped that the cost incurred in providing an hospital of so efficient and durable a character would not be allowed to occasion a
permanent diminution in the income of the Society . The number of patients admitted into the hospital during the past year had been 1 , 851 ; and the number supplied wdth medical and surgical attention during the same period , as out-patients , was 1 , 658 ; making a total of 3 , 509 . The contributions to the subscription-boxes at the several ports in the United Kingdom ha , d amounted , during the year , to £ 998 . lis . 3 d . ; and the Society had received legacies to the amount of £ 594 . The statement of accounts , from the 1 st January to the 31 st December , 1856 , showed that the receipts had amounted to £ 19 , 840 . 6 s . 8 d . ; and the expenditure , including loans returned to bankers , to £ 21 , 125 . 0 s . Id . ; leaving a balance against the Society of £ 1 , 278 . 13 s . 5 d .
PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS . The dramatic muse has during the past month shown herself extremely prolific . The following new pieces have been produced : At the Haymarket , on the 7 th , " Double-Faced People . " On the 11 th , at the Olympic , " | A Splendid Investment . " At the Haymarket , on the 16 th , " A Wicked Wife . " At the
-w . •• • t i ct x n > t-i >) _ j » „ ^ i . ' *„ Y , ! 1 _ — Lyceum , on the same night , " Life ' s Bansom / a live-act piece in blank verse . The same evening , at the Adelphi , " Barney the Baron . " On the 19 th , at the Olympic , " A Sheep in Wolf ' s Clothing ; " and on the 23 rd , at the Adelphi , " In and Out of Place . "
MISCELLANEOUS . On the 30 th of January , there was a grand Educational Conference at Manchester . On the Slst , there was a new Public School opened at Stepney , on which
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Summary Of News For February.
ordinary disbursements on the ordinary expenditure having been £ 4 , 893 . 9 s . 9 d . The account was received ^ and ordered to be printed and circulated among the governors in the usual form . The in-patients during the year had been 2 , 268 , and the out-patients 16 , 844 , making a total of 19 , 112 . The report of the registrars showed that there had been during the past year 11 , 600 medical cases , and 1 , 107 surgical cases .
The same day the Koyal Maternity Charity met and reported that last year there were delivered in the ^ hospital 3 , 297 women , 433 more than in 1850 ; and , from the report of the medical committee , there had been many cases of a difficult and complicated nature . There was now deposited in the London Provident Institution , Moorfields , to the account of the superahnuation fund , originated for the relief and assistance of the charity ' s infirm and aged midwives , £ 182 . 17 s . 7 d . £ 5 . 15 s . was in the hands of the secretary , and £ 300 invested in the Three per Cent . Consolidated Annuities . Since its commencement , in 1839 , the fund had dispensed in assistance £ 630 . Is .
At the meeting of the Governors of St . Mark ' s Hospital it was determined to raise a fund for the perpetual endowment of that institution . , Later in the month the Seamen ' s Hospital Society met . The annual court of the Governors of the Seamen ' s Hospital Society took place on Wednesday , at the Offices , King William-street , City—Admiral Hope , K . C . B ., in the chair . The report stated that the Society had been instrumental in saving life and restoring health to many thousand seamen of various nations , upwards of 77 , 000 having been admitted into the floating hospital since its establishment , besides 43 , 000 relieved as out-patients . The desire of the committee to obtain another ship in
lieu of the Dreadnought ( of which they had now held possession for upwards of 25 years ) , had been satisfied by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty having granted them H . M . S . Caledonia , a larger and more commodious vessel . Their lordships , however , had consented to alter the name to that under which the hospital had been so long known—the Dreadnought . The greater portion of the expense of fitting up this ship had devolved upon the Society , and the amount had already reached £ 11 , 000 . Little , however , now remained to be done , and the ship would , in the course of a few days , supersede the present Dreadnought . The committee hoped that the cost incurred in providing an hospital of so efficient and durable a character would not be allowed to occasion a
permanent diminution in the income of the Society . The number of patients admitted into the hospital during the past year had been 1 , 851 ; and the number supplied wdth medical and surgical attention during the same period , as out-patients , was 1 , 658 ; making a total of 3 , 509 . The contributions to the subscription-boxes at the several ports in the United Kingdom ha , d amounted , during the year , to £ 998 . lis . 3 d . ; and the Society had received legacies to the amount of £ 594 . The statement of accounts , from the 1 st January to the 31 st December , 1856 , showed that the receipts had amounted to £ 19 , 840 . 6 s . 8 d . ; and the expenditure , including loans returned to bankers , to £ 21 , 125 . 0 s . Id . ; leaving a balance against the Society of £ 1 , 278 . 13 s . 5 d .
PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS . The dramatic muse has during the past month shown herself extremely prolific . The following new pieces have been produced : At the Haymarket , on the 7 th , " Double-Faced People . " On the 11 th , at the Olympic , " | A Splendid Investment . " At the Haymarket , on the 16 th , " A Wicked Wife . " At the
-w . •• • t i ct x n > t-i >) _ j » „ ^ i . ' *„ Y , ! 1 _ — Lyceum , on the same night , " Life ' s Bansom / a live-act piece in blank verse . The same evening , at the Adelphi , " Barney the Baron . " On the 19 th , at the Olympic , " A Sheep in Wolf ' s Clothing ; " and on the 23 rd , at the Adelphi , " In and Out of Place . "
MISCELLANEOUS . On the 30 th of January , there was a grand Educational Conference at Manchester . On the Slst , there was a new Public School opened at Stepney , on which