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From: "J. A. Longbottom" <>
Subject: [UK-W&H] Re Bath Hospital 1747
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 19:37:33 -0000


>From Alan Longbottom @ Pudsey



From the London Gazette 6th June 1747

Conditions for Admission into the General Hospital at Bath

1 - The Case of the Patient must be described by some Physician or Person of Skill in the Neighbourhood of the Place where the Patient has resided for some Time ; and this Description, together with a Certificate of the Poverty of the Patient, attested by some Person of Credit, must be sent in a Letter, Franked or Post-paid, directed to the Register of the General Hospital at Bath.
The Age of the Patient ought to be mentioned in the Description of his Case, and the Persons who describe, are desired to be particular in the Enumeration of the Symptoms; that so neither improper Cases may be admitted, nor proper ones rejected.
2 - After the Patient's Case has been thus described, and sent, he must remain in his usual Place of Residence, till he has Leave to come, signified by Letter from the Register; who will, at the same Time, send a blank Parish Certificate.
3 - Upon the Receipt of such a Letter, the Patient must set forward for Bath, bringing with him this Letter, the Parish Certificate, duly executed, and Three Pounds Caution Money.
4 - Soldiers may, instead of a Parish Certificate, bring a certificate from their Commanding Officers, signifying to what Corps they belong, and that they shall be received into the same Corps, when discharged from the Hospital, in whatever Condition they are in. But it is necessary that their Cases be described and sent previously; and that they bring with them Three Pounds Caution Money.

The intention of the Caution Money is to defray the Expenses of returning the Patients, after they are discharged from the Hospital, or of their Burial in Case they die there. The remainder of the Caution Money, after these Expenses are defrayed, will be returned to the Person who deposited it.
All poor Persons coming to Bath, under Pretence of getting into the Hospital, without having their Cases thus described, and sent previously, and leave given for them to come, will be treated as Vagrants; as the Act of Parliament for the Regulation of the Hospital requires.

Alan




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