St Thomas's Hospital:
Minutes of the Court of Governors
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7th July 1736 - 12th May 1784

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Dry Diet
Breakfast2 Ozs. of Cheese or 2 Ozs: of Butter

Dinner{The same as the full diet till it can be
determin'd about Puddings

Supper.2 Ozs: of Cheese or 2 Ozs: of Butter
5 Sea biscuits or 14 Ozs: Bread. Bear 1 Qut:

Fever Diet.
Barley Water, Water Gruel, Panado, thin Broth
Milk Porridge, Rice Gruel, Balm, or Sage Tea, when Order

And We thereupon Order'd that
the diet of the Patients should be Atter'd according to
the said Plan

House in Warwick
Lane Purchased.


We being informed that a House
adjoining to the Hospital Estate at the corner of
Warwick Lane Pater-noster Row was to be Sold, have
Parchas'd the same for £150. by which the said Estate
is made more Compact, the Right of the Hospital to a
Passage there is Secured which if stopped up (as the Parish
of St: Sepulchre heretofore theratened to do) would have
been of great Detriment to the other Houses there be
longing to this Hospital.

We taking into consideration the great
number of Parish Poor, which are continually Admitted
into this Hospital which saves the Parishes to which they
belong a great Expence

Parish Patients
to pay 9s/4d Pr. month:


Have Ordered That for the future
upon the Admission of every Parish Patient, the Church
Warden or Overseers of the Parish do give Security to the
Hospital for the Payment of four Pence a day towards the
Subsistence of such poor Patients during their stay in the
Hospital And at the time of Admission do deposit in
the hands of the Steward sum of nine shillings & four
pence for the first months Subsistence And do Pay the
like sum at the beginning of every Subsequent month
So




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