28 NOVEMBER 1863, Page 2

The long contest about the new site for St. Thomas's

Hospital has ended at last. The hospital is not to be carried into the country, or built on the site of Bethlehem, but to be erected at Stang Ito, on seven acres of ground to be reclaimed from the river. The decision has only one drawback, the ground has still to be re- claimed, when reclaimed to be fitted for building, and when fitted to be covered with the necessary structures. There is little chance, therefore, of a new hospital within the next seven years.