London Hospital Act 1899
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1899 c. l |
| Year | 1899 |
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63 VICT.] -London Hospital Act, 1899. [Oh. 1.]
CHAPTER 1.
An Act to enable the Governors of the London Hospital to A..D. 1899.
acquire certain lands and to erect buildings for their
Out-patients Department and for other purposes.
[20th June 1899.]
HEREAS the London Hospital was in or about the year one
thousand seven hundred and forty erected on a site in the
parish of Saint Mary Whitechapel in the county of London fronting
the Mile End Road by a society formed for the purpose of relieving
the sick and diseased porn* in the city of London and borough of
Southwark:
And whereas by a charter or letters patent granted by His
late Majesty King George the Second and dated the ninth day of
December one thousand seven hundred and fifty-eight the then
governors of the said society and such subscribers and donors as
therein mentioned and such other persons as should be elected, in
manner therein mentioned were incorporated by the name of the
Governors of the London Hospital:
And whereas by the London Hospital Act 1884 certain leases
granted by the Governors were confirmed and the Governors were
empowered to grant building and other leases and their powers
of dealing with real estate were in other respects enlarged and
their powers of investing moneys belonging to the hospital were
denned:
And whereas the work of the Hospital has been carried on with
great benefit to the poor of the neighbourhood and the number of
patients admitted into the said hospital in the year one thousand
eight hundred and ninety-seven exceeded eleven thousand and the
number of out-patients relieved by the said hospital in the same
year exceeded one hundred and sixty thousand :
And whereas there is now urgent need of further accommodation
for the relief and treatment of out-patients and a gift of twenty-
five thousand pounds has been promised to the Governors
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