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

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Image 136 of 51430th April 1783


Continued Wednesday 30th. April 1783

Relation becoming an Object of Parochial Alms the
distress and difficulties of the Lunatics unhappy
Friends must be much aggravated and Increased
Besides for want of due Care and Security Accidents
far too shocking to be related have sometimes
happend

These manifest Evils that arise from the
want of a proper Provision for so great a number
of Incurable Patients have Induced many benevolent
Persons to wish that the Hospital might be enlarged
Indeed many have appropriated their Benefactions
solely to the Incurables and it is hoped that others
will forward and Compleat their good Intentions.
True Policy must Join with Humanity in the
wish that this may not any longer be what at
Present it is almost the only branch of Charity in
this great City that wants a sufficient Establishmt.
Besides there seems a peculiar Degree of
generosily in Assisting those who must Burthen
but can never benefit Society and who so far
from recompensing cannot ever feel the least




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