Bridewell Royal Hospital:
Minutes of the Court of Governors
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26th April 1781 - 12th July 1792

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Image 314 of 51429th November 1787


Continued Thursday 29th. Novr. 1787.

and that the same should be forthwith prepared and filled
up for that purpose and that the Honorable Philip
Boverie Pusey
< no role > had lately given a Benefaction of £200
and other Benefactors contributed liberally for the specific
Purpose of receiving an additional number of incurable patients
into the said Hospital and recommending that an Estimate
of the expence of extending the Accomodations of a still
Greater number of Incurable Patients should be forthwith
made by the Surveyor that the Governors (when it is in
their Power thro the Munificence of the Generous and
humane) may be enabled as they propose and intend to
accomplish so desirable and necessary a Work the Court
having taken the said Report into their Serious consideration
did agree with the Committee and order that the same or
so much thereof as They should think necessary from him
to time should be carried into execution That there are
divers Sheds and Buildings at the East end of the said
Hospital some of which are old and decayed, the
Leases whereof your Memorialists are informed will
expire in a short time the Ground and situation whereof
as being contigious to the said Hospital will be more
convement and benefical for extending the Buildings
necessary for the accommodation of at least 54 additional
Incurables if your Memorialists can obtain a Grant.
thereof which they are anxious to procure That your
Memorialists find that notwithstanding) the Provisions
made for Lunatics by this and other similar Institutions
many more objects apply for relief than they can possibly
assist Therefore your Memorialists confident that the
Citizens of London are impressed with the like benevolent
Progenitors and Predecessors and that the calls for
relieving incurable Patients are now equally, if not more
extensively necessary than here to fore and worthy the




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