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| | Victorian London - Directories - Dickens's Dictionary of London, by Charles Dickens, Jr., 1879 - "Hospitals" |
 | | The GENERAL HOSPITALS are public institutions for administering medical and surgical relief to patients within the building (in-patients), or attending at specified times (out-patients), and suffering under any illness or disease, except such as are incurable or contagious: for which latter infirmaries or special hospitals are the proper places. |
 | | Of these general hospitals seven were in existence before the commencement of this century, containing 2000 beds; during this century five others have been founded, and the beds now in all twelve amount to 3326. |
 | | Mount Vernon Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest, The; 1860; Northwood, Middlesex. |
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