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To the Right Worshipful the General Court of
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the Governors of St. Thomas's Hospital
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We the Grand Committee appointed to manage the,
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Affairs of this Hospital do report our proceedings therein since the
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last Annual General Court held the 7th. day of July 1736.
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Observations on the
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increased Expence of the
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Apothecary Shop
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We having for sometime observed a considerable increase in
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the expence of the Apothecary's Shop belonging to this Hospital thought
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it necessary to enquire as for as we could into the reasons of it & apprehend-
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ing upon such enquiry that the Increase has arisen partly from the full
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Number of Patients in the House and more from the increased Number of
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Out Patients & the too large dispensing of Medicines to them at a time &
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also from the enlarging the Dispensatory of the Hospital both as to the
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Number & Value of the Medicines which the Physicians have thought
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necessary for the Welfare of the Patients. We recommended to the Physician
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to be cautions of using such Druggs as are dear or may occasionally be-
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come so when any other may properly be substituted in their room
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And We recommended to the Apothecary carefully to avoid the dispensing
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Medicines to Patients in larger Quantities than necessary either with
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respect to their keeping or use till the time of repeating the same returns
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And we caused such our Recommendations to be deliver'd in Writing
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to the Physicians & Apothecary respectively.
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We held Courts at the Manours of Helions Bumstead &
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Alvethly in Essex and at the Manours of Hinton Nether hall
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Comberton & Topcliffs in Meldreth in Cambridgeshire and at the
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Manours of Mass worth & Denham Durdent in Buckinghams
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to Mannor of Lynsters in Hertfordshire & the Manour of Crofton
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in Orpington in Kent
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4 New Houses built
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near St. Thomas's Church
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Five Houses part of the Hospital Estate in St. Thomas's
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Street at the West End of the Church being very old & ruinous We
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thought it for the Service of the Hospital to pull down the same & to
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build four Houses upon the same Ground according to a Plann Ppared
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by Mr.
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James Steere
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, And divers
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Builders
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proposing to
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undertake the Buildings We found a Proposal made by Mr.
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James
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to be the lowest Etc thereupon contracted with him for clearing
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the Ground & building such four new Houses for the Sum of £844.11..
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