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HISTORY OF THE METROPOLITAN HOSPITAL SUNDAY FUND.
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offertory that will be dedicated to the sick service of the poor.
The contributions also of the poor themselves will be included in the aggregate, and these, judged by the generosity which prompts them, and the self-denial which makes them possible, will be among the most precious gifts which wil1reaeh the altar. But however open-handed the charity which responds to the present appeal, the object in behalf of which it is made will be fully worthy of it. No sympathy can be exaggerated, no self-denial overdrawn, which is stimulated by the spectacle of the hospital population of London. To aid in whatever capacity in assuaging its woes and conveying to its sorrow-laden heart a message of sympathy and a prospect of relief is surely an aim worthy to animate the best endeavours of every man and every woman in whom faith in the brotherhood of man, to say nothing of the kinship of race, is a living spring of emotion and principle of conduct.
The following table will show the its establishment in 1873 :-
B since
growth
of the Fund
HISTORY OF THE METROPOLITAN HOSPITAL SUNDAY FUND. 1 In 1884 £4500 was received from the THE following statement has been prepared and circulated Managers of the International Health xhihition. by the Hospital Sunday Fund Council :-Hospital Sunday 2 In 1886 a special donation of .1000 was received from James Esq., M.D. in London was established in the year 1873, during Wakley, 3 In 1887 a legacy of £1000 was paid by the executors of the late the mayoralty of Sir Sydney H. Waterlow, Bart., now James Wakley, Esq., M.D. 4 In 1889 the apparent decrease in the number of contributing congreVice-president of the Fund. The late Dr. James Wakley, gations is fully accounted for by a large number of Sunday-school editor of THE LANCET, was perhaps the first person to collections having been paid separately in 1888, and in 1889 included and with those of their respective churches and chapels. press for Hospital Sunday in London by numerous para- paid graphs and articles in that paper during the years 1869- , The largest church or congregational collection in 1889 1872. Lord Mayor Waterlow gave practical effect to the was £1217Is. 11d., at St. Jude’s, South Kensington. dealing with a place like London we have to realise suggestions of the late Canon Miller, D.D., and others, and theInexistence of over four millions of people living close to became the first President and Treasurer of the Fund in each of whom the great majority are poor, and London. Sir Edmund Hay Currie and Richard B. Martin, many are sick and suffering. Esq., have worked as honorary secretaries from the comIn the year 1880 provision was made for supplying poor mencement, and they still hold office. persons, properly recommended by the heads or representaIn the past seventeen years no less than £555,700 has tives of their several congregations, with surgical appliances been collected, from year to year, by the Council and paid to the extent of 4 per cent. of the fund. This provision has to institutions in the proportions recommended by the now been raised to 5 per cent., which gives with other ’Committee of Distribution, the members of which are not special donations about £2350 to spend in monthly proporIn 1889 upwards of 2600 appliances were given allowed to hold any financial position with any participating tions. to deserving poor people. charity.
other,
THE METROPOLITAN HOSPITAL SUNDAY FUND. Amounts Received and Disbursed in the Year 1889.
offertory that will be dedicated to the sick service of the poor.
The contributions also of the poor themselves will be included in the aggregate, and these, judged by the generosity which prompts them, and the self-denial which makes them possible, will be among the most precious gifts which wil1reaeh the altar. But however open-handed the charity which responds to the present appeal, the object in behalf of which it is made will be fully worthy of it. No sympathy can be exaggerated, no self-denial overdrawn, which is stimulated by the spectacle of the hospital population of London. To aid in whatever capacity in assuaging its woes and conveying to its sorrow-laden heart a message of sympathy and a prospect of relief is surely an aim worthy to animate the best endeavours of every man and every woman in whom faith in the brotherhood of man, to say nothing of the kinship of race, is a living spring of emotion and principle of conduct.
The following table will show the its establishment in 1873 :-
B since
growth
of the Fund
HISTORY OF THE METROPOLITAN HOSPITAL SUNDAY FUND. 1 In 1884 £4500 was received from the THE following statement has been prepared and circulated Managers of the International Health xhihition. by the Hospital Sunday Fund Council :-Hospital Sunday 2 In 1886 a special donation of .1000 was received from James Esq., M.D. in London was established in the year 1873, during Wakley, 3 In 1887 a legacy of £1000 was paid by the executors of the late the mayoralty of Sir Sydney H. Waterlow, Bart., now James Wakley, Esq., M.D. 4 In 1889 the apparent decrease in the number of contributing congreVice-president of the Fund. The late Dr. James Wakley, gations is fully accounted for by a large number of Sunday-school editor of THE LANCET, was perhaps the first person to collections having been paid separately in 1888, and in 1889 included and with those of their respective churches and chapels. press for Hospital Sunday in London by numerous para- paid graphs and articles in that paper during the years 1869- , The largest church or congregational collection in 1889 1872. Lord Mayor Waterlow gave practical effect to the was £1217Is. 11d., at St. Jude’s, South Kensington. dealing with a place like London we have to realise suggestions of the late Canon Miller, D.D., and others, and theInexistence of over four millions of people living close to became the first President and Treasurer of the Fund in each of whom the great majority are poor, and London. Sir Edmund Hay Currie and Richard B. Martin, many are sick and suffering. Esq., have worked as honorary secretaries from the comIn the year 1880 provision was made for supplying poor mencement, and they still hold office. persons, properly recommended by the heads or representaIn the past seventeen years no less than £555,700 has tives of their several congregations, with surgical appliances been collected, from year to year, by the Council and paid to the extent of 4 per cent. of the fund. This provision has to institutions in the proportions recommended by the now been raised to 5 per cent., which gives with other ’Committee of Distribution, the members of which are not special donations about £2350 to spend in monthly proporIn 1889 upwards of 2600 appliances were given allowed to hold any financial position with any participating tions. to deserving poor people. charity.
other,
THE METROPOLITAN HOSPITAL SUNDAY FUND. Amounts Received and Disbursed in the Year 1889.