Dr. The Household Expenses of the Pennsylvania Hospital. Cr. By interest money received from the contribu To balance of account, adjusted the fifth of fifth month (May) 1759, To provisions, fire £880 16 03 And the number of patients received and discharged this year, with their cases, appears by the following Abstract of Cases of Patients in the Pennsylvania Hospital, from the 28th of April, 1759, to the 28th of April, 1760. And several, whose cases did not require, or were not judged suitable to be taken into the house, have, as out patients, received the benefit of medicines from the Hospital, and the advice and care of the physicians, gratis. The contributions which have been generously made this year, have enabled the managers to proceed in com. pleting some necessary conveniences, which were im. mediately wanted, and to receive and entertain a much larger number of patients in the house, than their stock would permit before; and if the spirit of charity towards this institution continues, with equal warmth hereafter, it will soon become more extensively useful. To give it its proper weight with the publick, let it be considered, that in a city of large trade, many poor people must be employed in carrying on a commerce, which subjects them to frequent terrible accidents. That in a country, where great numbers of indigent foreigners have been but lately imported, and where the common distresses of poverty have been much increased, by a most savage and bloody war, there must be many poor, sick, and maimed. That poor people are maintained by their labour, and, if they cannot labour, they cannot live, without the help of the more fortunate. We all know, many mouths are fed, many bodies clothed, by one poor man's industry and diligence; should any distemper seize and afflict this person; should any sudden hurt happen to him, which should render him incapable to follow the business of his calling, unfit him to work, disable him to labour but for a little time; or should his duty to his aged and diseased parents, or his fatherly |