"MIR Spectator," /Raub 22nb. 1851
A PROJECT to establish at Chelsea a Metropolitan Hospital for Children was promoted by a meeting in the Hanover Square Rooms on Monday. Lord Ashley, who presided, while admitting the abundance of charitable institutions in London, informed his hearers that the number of beds in our hospitals are still far below the proportion in Paris, Vienna, Petersburg. and other large cities of Europe. The Earl of Carlisle recommended the project to the Christian world by happily-phrased reference to passages in the life of Jesus, showing His tender interest in children. The Bishol of London observed that our population increases 30,000 a year ; our hospitals much slower. Sir Robert Inglis and some medical gentlemen of repute instructed the assembly as to the peculiar value to science of infant hospitals ; as infants present each disease in what may be called its purest form—in the form least modified by the constituent variances of the individual.
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