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    118 HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN*

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    Among Sick Once , The There - The Intere...

    tality among adults , the mortality of children under ten years of is onltwo centless than it was fifty years ago . " Of the

    fift age y thousand y who per die annuall , y in London alone , twenty-one thousand are under ten years of age . "

    Think of that you happy mothers of " curled darlings / ' whose aching finger or slightest cold brings you care and anxiety ;

    think of these " drooping buds , "—poor little sickly flowerets , themselves nipped bthe cold blasts of poverty and ignorance , —as

    they wither and decay y , spreading the infection of their deadly disease from alley to court of their own over-crowded habitations ,

    and thence to the comfortable and luxurious homes "which border so close upon them , and where all your lavish loving care cannot

    _. exclude contagion or ward off death ! X to A Hosp with ital all for the Sick alleviation Children . they Let embod these words y to the realise little themselve sufferers s

    you , themselves , with all the comfort and blessing * they convey to crowds of care-wornheart-stricken motherswho , with their pain-tossed

    and fever-flushed , darlings in their arms , , often the warmest shelter those hapless children know , throng" to the out-patients' door to

    the number of three hundred a day ! "In February of 1852 , " as the report for 1859 says , " the doors

    of the hospital were first opened for the reception of patients , twenty beds being provided . During the first month there "were hilt two

    mothers who ventured to leaTe their little ones in the care of the institution . This state of distrust was not , however , of long

    continuance . The care and tenderness with which the little patients were treated soon became known and appreciated , and before the

    year expired , the committee were compelled , by the numerous applications for admission , to _} _3 rovide accommodation for thirty instead

    of " twent For y some patients time . afterwards , and indeed until the past year , when

    the number of beds was increased to forty-four , the committee were prevented by want of funds from receiving more than thirty children

    into the hospital ; but from an early period the increase in the number of out-patients was so great that , in the year 1855 , it became

    necessary to enlarge the building and to add to the medical staff by the appointment of two additional physicians . , From that time to

    the present , nearly ten thousand children have been brought every year to the hospital as out-patients , no other recommendation being

    required from the applicants than those of poverty and sickness . " Uthis its first opening " the funds limited the hospital to one

    their only pon of broad those , oak & ne staircases old houses , loft , in y Great panelled Ormond rooms Street and , n which oble , h with alls ,

    tell of past grandeur and fashion , but , in 1858 , the adjoining house and garden were purchased for one thousand six hundred pounds ,

    and , were the committee possessed of the requisite income , the number of in-patients as given above , forty-four in all , could at once be

    nearly doubled .

    118 Hospital For Sick Children*

    118 HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN *

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1860, page 118, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041860/page/46/