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