Bartholomews should thereafter be a place and House
for the poor thereto be placed and should be called the
House of the poor in West Smithfield next London of the
foundation of King Henry the Eight It appears that ever
since the said Grant the said Hospital has been made use
of for the relief of sick Wounded and diseased poor where
thousands are annually relieved and cured and that soon
after the Great Fire of London Houses and Shops were
made in the Buildings within the Cloistets and precinct of
the Hospital for the Consenience of the Inhabitants of
London (then in great distress for Houses) who Occupying
the same for their Own Benefit became Rateable and
Chargeable to the poors Rates That about the Year one
thousand seven hundred and Thirty some of the Antient
Buildings and Wards of the Hospital and some of the said
Houses and Shops having become ruinous were pulled down
and by the Donation of Governors and other Benefactors
four large Piles of Building has been progressively erected
and are now used for the Hospital one of which Piles or Wings
contain a Hall a Compting House and other Rooms which
are used for meetings of the Governors receiving Rents
examining and admission of Patient House for the Clerk
and Appartment for the Steward and the other three Piles of
Buildings are used for Wards for the Patients and their
Nurses only and that an Elaboratory also has been erected for