St Thomas's Hospital:
Minutes of the Court of Governors
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20th February 1678 - 16th July 1735

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Image 182 of 45817th March 1703


And being withdrawne after a Debate upon the matters mentioned
in the said Report relateing to them and alsoe upon the Matters
sett forth by them in their Peticons to the Comittee and this
Court It was upon the Question resolved That this Court doth
not think fitt to Restore the said Doctr: Torlesse and Mr: Elton to
their places of Physitian and Surgeon in this Hospitall.

Dr: Torlesse & Mr: Tho:
Elto
< no role > n Discharged from
their places


And upon further Debate, it was upon the
Question resolved and Ordered That the said Doctor Richard
Torlesse
< no role > and Mr: Thomas Elton< no role > shall be and are hereby
dismissed and discharged from their said places of Physitian and Surgeon
in this Hospitall.

Applicacon Ordered for
An Allowance to the Hospll.
for Seamen [..]


Ordered that it be referred to the Comittee
to make such Applicacons in the name of this Court as they
shall judge propper, in order to the Obtaining some Allowance
from the Government to be made to this Hospitall towards the Extraordinary
Charge and Expence this Hospitall was at dureing the late
Warr with France, or which this Hospitall may hereafter be
put to, in respect of such Sick and Wounded Seamen as have been
or shall be Admitted by the Governors into this House.

The Coppyes of the severall papers menconed & Referred to
in the forgoeing Report: vizt:

Extract of the third Paragraph of the
Intructions Given to the Comrs: for sick and
Wounded Seamen Etc: Dated In the Councill Chamber
at Whitehall 5th: Febr 1690.

NB

You or any two or more of you are hereby Impowred as often
as you shall see Cause take an Account of what sick and Wounded
men the Hospitalls of England can Accomodate for Cure thereby to
Ease his Majesties Charge; and that Such Sick and Wounded men
Imediately after their being sett on Shoar by a Certificate under the
two principall Officers of the Ship The Purser or Steward together
with the Chyrurgeon of the Ship to which they belong Bee Ordered
To such Hospitalls, and in such propocons as may be most suitable to
the Nature of them and may best Conduce to the Reliefe and Cure
of the diseased who are to receive the Allowance of the House dureing
their Continuance there but where the said Allowance is found
Insufficient for their Maintenance in such Case you shall make a
Competent Supply as well towards the Maintenance of the sick and
Wounded




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