Dr. The household expenses of the Pennsylvania Hospital Cr. To balance of last year's ac. By interest-money received

count,

£97 0 112

To the amount of

from the sub.
scribers,

We likewise find that the amount of subscriptions collected from widows and other charitable women, towards paying for the medicines received from Sylvanus and Timothy Bevan last year, and paid into the hands of William Griffitts, is one hundred and eleven pounds, five shillings and six-pence, and that the balance remaining due on account of said medicines, is seventynine pounds, sixteen shillings and four-pence halfpenny, which ought speedily to be discharged.

Submitted to the board of managers,

HUGH ROBERTS,

Philadelphia, 6th 5th mo. 1754

ISRAEL PEMBERTON.

Abstract of cases admitted into the Pennsylvania Hospital, from the eleventh of the second month, 1752, to the twenty-seventh of the fourth month, 1754.

N. B. The majority of the lunaticks taken in had been many years disordered, and their diseases become too habitual to admit

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From the foregoing accounts it appears: That from the tenth of February, 1752, to the twenty seventh of April, 1754, which is but about two years and two months, sixty persons, afflicted with various distempers, have been cured, besides many others that have received considerable relief, both in and out patients; and if so much good has been done by so small a number of contributors, how much more then may reasonably be expected from the liberal aid and assistance of the well disposed who hitherto have not joined in the undertaking? Experience has more and more convinced all concerned, of the great usefulness of this charity. The careful attendance afforded to the sick poor; the neatness, cleanness, and regularity of diet with whigh they are kept in the Hospital, are found to contribute to their recovery much sooner than their own manner of living at home, and render the physick they take more effectual. Here they have the best ad

f relief; others whose cases were recent, and might probably have been cured, being put in at private expense, were so hastily taken away by their friends, that sufficient time was not allowed for their recovery: The managers have therefore, as well for the sake of the afflicted, as the reputation of the Hospital, resolved to admit none hereafter, who are not allowed to remain twelve months in the house, if not cured sooner, or judged by the phy. sicians to be incurable.

The choice of the sick to be supported on the publick stock, was confined to such only whose cases could not be healed properly in their respective habitations, but required the extraordi. nary conveniences and advantages of a Hospital; amongst these, several, for want of this noble charity in time, had languished too long to receive any other advantage from it than the relief of their poverty, and the satisfaction of being convinced they had every chance for recovery that care and tenderness could afford.

vice, and the best medicines, which are helps to recovery, that many in better circumstances in different parts of the province do not enjoy. In short, there is scarce any one kind of doing good, which is not hereby in some manner promoted; for not only the sick are visited and relieved, but the stranger is taken in, the ignorant instructed, and the bad reclaimed; * present wants are supplied, and the future prevented, and (by easing poor families of the burthen of supporting and curing their sick) it is also the means of feeding the hungry, and clothing the naked.

It it therefore hoped, that by additional benefactions from pious and benevolent persons (an account of which will be published yearly according to law) this charity may be farther extended, so as to embrace with open arms all the sick poor that need the relief it affords, and that the managers will not in time to come, be un der a necessity, from the narrowness of the funds, of refusing admittance to any proper object. "It is hoped that a deaf ear will not be turned to the cries of those, in whose favour both religion and humanity strongly plead; who are recommended by the great pattern of human conduct; who in sickness are lost to society; who contribute greatly to the instruction of those youth to whom the lives of high and low may hereafter be intrusted, whose prayers are to be sent up for their deliverers; but that all will assist to render the funds of this Hospital

*The kind visits and conversation of some serious persons, and the pious books that have been left in the Hospital, recommend. ed to the perusal of the patients, together with the exact regularity kept in the house, have been attended with a blessing in these respects.

answerable to the necessities of the poor.-Incapacity of contributing can by none be pleaded; the rich only indeed can bestow large sums, but most can spare some" thing yearly, which collected from many, might make a handsome revenue, by which great numbers of distressed objects can be taken care of, and relieved, many of whom may possibly one day make a part of the blessed company above, when a cup of cold water given to them will not be unrewarded. Let people but reflect what unnecessary expenses they have been at in any year for vain superfluities or entertainments, for mere amusements or diversions, or perhaps in vicious debauches; and then let them put the question to themselves, whether they do not wish that money had been given in the way now proposed? If this reflection has influence on their future conduct, the poor will be provided for. The least mite may be here given without a blush; for what people would not choose to give the treasurer, or any manager, the trouble to receive, may be put into their charity boxes, or into the box which is fixed in the entry of the Hospital: where money cannot so well be spared, provision or linen, blankets, and any kind of furniture, herbs and roots for the kitchen, or the apothecary, or other necessaries of a family, may be delivered to the matron or governess; old linen, and even rags, for lint, bandages, and other chyrurgical dressings, are acceptable, being scarce to be purchased sometimes for money; and though they are of little or no value to those who have them, they are absolutely necessary in such a Hospital, and will be thankfully received.”

It ought in justice to be here observed, that the prac titioners have not only given their advice and attendance