An address upon laying the foundation-stone of the Queen's Hospital, Birmingham, June 18, 1840. With notes, and an appendix ... To which is prefixed, an account of the ceremony / [Vaughan Thomas].

  • Vaughan Thomas
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1840
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Credit: An address upon laying the foundation-stone of the Queen's Hospital, Birmingham, June 18, 1840. With notes, and an appendix ... To which is prefixed, an account of the ceremony / [Vaughan Thomas]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    QUEEN’S HOSPITAL, BIRMINGHAM. (Extracted from The Birmingham Advertiser of June 25, 1840.) On Thursday last, the first stone of the Clinical Hospital, about to be erected in the neighbourhood of the town, under the immediate patronage of the Queen and Queen Dowager, was laid by the Right Hon. the Earl Howe, in the presence of a numerous assemblage, including most of the Gentry, Clergy, and influential inhabitants of Birming¬ ham and its vicinity. The project for founding a second Hospital originated with the Rev. Chancellor Law, the enlightened and liberal patron of the Royal School of Medicine, and of numerous other institutions adapted to meet the wants and promote the happiness of his fellow- creatures. With respect to the necessity there existed, and which has long been felt, for the establishment of a second Hospital, it is only necessary to state, that in this great cen¬ tral metropolitan district, intersected in all directions with canal and railway communications, embracing within its range upwards of a million of people employed amidst the deleterious effluvia arising out of the manufactures, hourly exposed to accident and disease from machinery a 2
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