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<p n="19">Bartholomews should thereafter be a place and House<lb></lb>
for the poor thereto be placed and should be called the<lb></lb>
House of the poor in West Smithfield next London of the<lb></lb>
foundation of King Henry the Eight It appears that ever<lb></lb>
since the said Grant the said Hospital has been made use<lb></lb>
of for the relief of sick Wounded and diseased poor where<lb></lb>
thousands are annually relieved and cured and that soon<lb></lb>
after the Great Fire of London Houses and Shops were<lb></lb>
made in the Buildings within the Cloistets and precinct of<lb></lb>
the Hospital for the Consenience of the Inhabitants of<lb></lb>
London (then in great distress for Houses) who Occupying<lb></lb>
the same for their Own Benefit became Rateable and<lb></lb>
Chargeable to the poors Rates That about the Year one<lb></lb>
thousand seven hundred and Thirty some of the Antient<lb></lb>
Buildings and Wards of the Hospital and some of the said<lb></lb>
Houses and Shops having become ruinous were pulled down<lb></lb>
and by the Donation of Governors and other Benefactors<lb></lb>
four large Piles of Building has been progressively erected<lb></lb>
and are now used for the Hospital one of which Piles or Wings<lb></lb>
contain a Hall a Compting House and other Rooms which<lb></lb>
are used for meetings of the Governors receiving Rents<lb></lb>
examining and admission of Patient House for the Clerk<lb></lb>
and Appartment for the Steward and the other three Piles of<lb></lb>
Buildings are used for Wards for the Patients and their<lb></lb>
Nurses only and that an Elaboratory also has been erected for</p>
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