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Lanesborough, a nobleman remarkable for his devotion to dancing, a recreation in which even the gout could not restrain him from participating. He considered dancing a panacea for all affliction, and when Queen Anne had to regret the loss of her consort, Prince George of Denmark, the sympathising courtier advised her majesty to seek for an antidote to her grief in the pleasures of a cotillon or minuet. He died in 1723, and ten years afterwards Lanesborough House became St. George's Hospital. The hospital was incorporated in 1824, and the present handsome edifice, the chief front of which is 180 feet in length, was erected by Mr. Wilkins in 1829. It contains 350 beds, a lecture theatre, and an anatomical museum. The yearly income averages little more than £7,000, of which only £3,000 are derivable from property. The celebrated John Hunter expired suddenly in St. George's Hospital, his death having been caused by the excitement of a quarrel in the board-room, while suffering under an affection of the heart.

The London Hospital, in Whitechapel-road, was established in 1740, and removed to its present situation in 1759. The patients are mostly sick and wounded sailors, watermen, and workmen employed in the docks, and on the quays among the shipping. The edifice is a brick building, composed of a centre and two wings, the eastern one having been recently enlarged. It is maintained by voluntary subscription, and is furnished with 330 beds. In 1850, 33,000 patients were administered to, of whom 4,185 were in-patients. The yearly revenue approaches £15,000.

The Middlesex Hospital, Charles-street, Tottenhamcourt-road, was founded in 1745, in Windmill-street, Tottenham-court-road, and ten years afterwards removed to the more eligible spot which it now occupies, and known a century back as Marylebone-fields. The building includes a centre and two wings. It contains 285 beds, and there is a ward appropriated to cases of cancer, the endowment for which was bequeathed by Mr. Samuel Whit

bread, who died in 1796. Ophthalmic and dental disorders also come within the province of the hospital. The yearly revenue is about £9,500. In 1849 the number of patients was 12,079.

The Royal Free Hospital, founded in 1828 in Greville-street, Hatton-garden, and thence removed, in 1842, to the premises in Gray's-inn-lane, formerly occupied as barracks by the Light Horse Volunteers, was established by Dr. Marsden; and the late King William IV. and Queen Adelaide were among its most munificent patrons. Here the poor who seek medical relief, either as in-patients or out-patients, require no subscriber's letter or any other introductory credentials, save those of poverty and sickness. During the visitations of the cholera much good was effected by this hospital, 700 persons attacked with the frightful disease being admitted in 1832, and in 1849 more than 3,000. In the last-named year 154 of the pauper children of the Holborn Union, suffering from this complaint, were removed to the Free Hospital, where only four out of the entire number died. This charitable institution makes 134 beds, having room, however, for 500. In 1849 it extended assistance to upwards of 28,000 patients.

The Hospital for Consumption at Brompton, was founded in 1841, and incorporated in 1849. The structure is of red brick and stone, in the Tudor style. In 1849 the renowned vocalist, Jenny Lind, gave a concert for the benefit of the hospital, realizing on its behalf £1,556, an amount which was appropriated to the construction of an east wing, to be called, when completed, the Jenny Lind wing. In the year closing May the 30th, 1850, 360 inpatients were admitted, and relief administered to 3,176 out-patients. The income from contributions in 1849 was £4,000, the expenditure reaching £4,400.

The Small Pox Hospital at Highgate, and the Fever Hospital in the Liverpool road, Islington, are handsome edifices of recent construction, their original site having been at King's Cross.