The history of the General Hospital, Belfast, and the other medical institutions of the town : with chronological notes and biographical reminiscenses connected with its rise and progress / [Andrew G. Malcolm].

  • Andrew George Malcolm
Date:
1851
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Credit: The history of the General Hospital, Belfast, and the other medical institutions of the town : with chronological notes and biographical reminiscenses connected with its rise and progress / [Andrew G. Malcolm]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1807-9] G3 MEMORABILIA ANNORUM. — Rev. Edward Ma}’, Sovereign. — Proclamation issued by the King, directing the laws, of quarantine to be put in force, and a Board of Health tobe established, in consequence of the appearance of a most fatal epidemic on the shores of the Mediterranean. — The population of Belfast, 22,005; houses, 3,014. — 719 cotton, and 4 linen looms at work. — £10,000 subscribed towards the erection of the Royal Academical Institution. — The Irish Harp School, conducted by Mr. Bunting; Mr. Arthm- O’Neill, teacher. — The first county grant received for the Hispensary and Fever Hospital. Feb. Belfast Repository opened for receiving and selling the work of poor women, conducted by a committee of ladies, in Aun-street. Feb. 11 Died, William Sinclaire, an eminent linen merchant, universally and deservedly esteemed. Sept. 17 Died, Mr. Richard M'Clelland, Surgeon and Apothecary, and agent at this port for the sick and wounded seamen of the navy. He was one of the first Surgeons to tJie chiu’ity. B, S ® ©» — Belfast Bank, Donegall-square North. — Northern Bank, 5, Donegall-place. — Belfast Commercial Bank, Hercules-street. — Branch of the Hibernian Bible Society. — Belfast Insurance Company, 191, North- street. Oct. 26 Died, at Portpatrick, Yal. Jones, Esq., aged 80; for many years Secretary to the Dispensary' and Hospital—one of its most devoted supporters. Dec. 12 Died, Mr. Robert Stephenson, Surgeon; for 26 years' a most active and zealous member of the Committee of the Chari- table Society, to which he bequeathed the munificent sum of £1,000. Dec. 22 Died, Rev. William Bristow, aged 73, Rector of the Parish, and for many years Sovereign. No man more .justly merited the character of an intelligent, active, and upright Magistrate; and his ami- able qudities, and rare endowments, made him the delight of all who were privileged to know him. On the day of his death all the public marks of the deepest regret were exhibited; and his funeral procession was the most solemn and imposing spectacle which had been ever witnessed. B S ® ®, — The House of Industry', in Smitlifield, opened. — Acheson and Lyons’ famous Academy, Church-lane. May Dec. 10 Died, at London, Thomas J. Andrews, Esq., fetr many years an active Magistrate. 6 Died, the Rev. Robert Dobbs, a zealous philanthropist, to whom the principal charities were greatly indebted. HE most important feature in our history, at this period, relates to the additional aid which the Charity wms soon about to receive, in consequence of the passing of a recent Act, empowering Gram! Juries of Counties in Ireland to grant certain sums towards the maintenance of Public Dispensaries and Fever Hospitals. Accordingly, on the 22nd Februaiy, 1807, the Committee resolved to keep a separate hst of the Subscribers to each of the united Charities, in order tliat the forms of the Act referred to might be