Volume 1

An appeal to the public in behalf of a hospital for sick children.

  • Great Ormond Street Hospital
Date:
1850
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An appeal to the public in behalf of a hospital for sick children. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    while 23 of the last mentioned 26, were Children between the ages of 3 and 10 years, the total mortality between these ages, in 1812, amounted in the metropolis to 33.748. This want, to which it is now sought to call the attention of the public, is one that has been felt and supplied in many other countries and cities of Europe. Not only do dispensaries for sick children exist in a great number, even of the smaller towns on the continent, but there are also hos¬ pitals set apart for their exclusive reception in Paris, Frankfort, Munich, Hamburgh, Berlin, St. Petersburgh, Moscow, Vienna, Prague, Pesth, Turin, Copenhagen, Stuttgard, Grratz, Briinn, Lemberg, and even in Constantinople. In order to avoid misconception, it may perhaps be neces¬ sary to state, that all the above-mentioned institutions are perfectly distinct from Eoundling hospitals, and that their sole object is the cure of sick children, with the exception of the hospital at Constantinople, a part of which is appropriated to the reception of Orphans. Moreover, not one of these insti¬ tutions has been found to fail of the benevolent object for which it was established ; but, on the contrary, all have flour¬ ished, and are flourishing, and some have been the first-fruits of voluntary effort on the part of the inhabitants of cities where formerly nothing had been attempted, except by the order and under the direction of the Grovernment. To follow, then, where they cannot lead, and to emulate the noble example of the people of other lands in this most excellent work of charity, a Provisional Committee has been formed for the purpose of establishing in London a Hospital to contain 100 beds for sieJc children, between the ages of two and twelve years; and towards this object they now appeal to a benevolent public for assistance. It would be idle to offer at present any detailed accoimt of the arrangements which it is proposed to adopt, but the Committee beg to state, that they have submitted them to
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