St Thomas's Hospital:
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13th December 1704 - 6th November 1724

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The Doctors and Surgeons Informed this Comittee

That Sister King it by Age and other Infirmityes Incapable
& Unfitt for Service, And when they examine her can give no
Accompt of her Patients and does not take no Care about
Delivering the Physick prescribed for the Patients in her Ward

That Sister Jonah is above Eighty Years old and almost
Supannuated but hath been a Good Servant and is an Industrious
Woman and Does her best Endeavours.

That Sister Lazarus Extort Money and Neglects such as
don't Give it, but is Capable of doeing good Service if she pleaser

That Sister Susannah is Incaple by Age & Sicknesse and
hardly knows any of her patients but has been a good Nurse and
an Old Servant.

Whereupon, the sd Sisters of King's Jonah's
Lazarus's and Susannah's Wards, were serverally
Called in and Examined, And the sd Sisters
of Jonah's & Lazarus's Wards, appearing to
the Comittee to be yet Capable of Doeing their Duty
and having promised to be Faithfull & Diligent
in their respective Places for the time to Come,
were Continued therein during the Pleasure of the
Grand Comittee.

But the Sisters of Kings Ward and Susannah's
Ward, being found Unfitt for further Service, were
Discharged from their sd places.

And in regard the sd Sisters of Kings & Susannah's
Wards have been Old Servants, it is referred to Mr:
Trear . either to keep them in the Hospitall, under the Allowances
Rents Settled in the like late at a Comittee, 25th. June 1707: or to send to the Respective Parishes where they were last Settled, which
he think fitt.

Ordered that the Hospitalls Houses in Poter Noster
Row and Newgate Markett be Insured, and it is Left to Mr:
Trear to gett the same done.

Upon Reading the Report to be made to the Generall
Court of the Proceedings of this Comittee, Agreed that No
Strong Beer be Allowed to the Trear for the time being from
the Hospitall Trear house as directed at the Comittee [..]
but And the [..] being accordingly attend in [..]




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