Scheme for the regulation of Sutton's Hospital in Charterhouse.

  • Charterhouse.
Date:
[1872]
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Scheme for the regulation of Sutton's Hospital in Charterhouse. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( 20 ) in favour of a candidate otherwise duly qualified, who may- have become incapacitated by illness, accident, or infirmity, from exerting himself for his own maintenance. Provided that no person who shall be blind or helpless from infirmity of mind or body shall be eligible for appointment. No person shall be eligible for appointment as a Poor Brother, or shall be capable of retaining such appointment, who shall be or become possessed of or entitled to the clear yearly income of £60, or property of that annual value. 26. Each Poor Brother shall have the use and Rooms, occupation, rent free, of a room or set of rooms in the Hospital, to be assigned to him by the Master, which shall be kept in repair and painted and papered when necessary at the cost of the Hospital Branch. The Governors may also cause any suit- able articles of furniture to be provided at the like cost for the use of the Poor Brothers in their rooms. 27. Each Poor Brother shall have as at present aiw- an annual pecuniary allowance of £36, and also ances* the daily allowance of bread and butter heretofore supplied to each at the cost of the Charity, unless the Governors shall see fit to commute such allowance for a payment of the annual sum of £6. The Governors shall however be at liberty to increase the amount of the said pecuniary allow- ance to any sum not exceeding £40 per annum, in d 2