c,
insane, and the blind, for whom there are other asylums), and also gives
pensions to out-patients of L20 per annum.

GREAT NORTHERN HOSPITAL, HOLLOWAY ROAD.

_July 17th, 1888._

The Prince of Wales performed the ceremony of opening the new buildings
of the Great Northern Hospital, at Islington, on the 17th of July, 1888.
He was accompanied by the Princess of Wales, and by the Princesses
Louise, Victoria, and Maude. The event caused much interest in the
northern part of London, and vast crowds filled the streets and roads.
The Rev. W. H. Barlow, Vicar of Islington, and many of the clergy, Mr.
Murdoch, M.P., Chairman of the Hospital, and other official persons,
received the Royal visitors in a gaily decorated tent. Their Royal
Highnesses, however, were attired in deep mourning, on account of the
death of the Emperor Frederick of Germany. An address was read, in which
it was stated that Islington is the largest parish in England in
population. At the beginning of the reign of the Queen it had 40,000
inhabitants, now it has 320,000. The Great Northern Hospital was
established in 1857, but in 1882 it was resolved to erect a building
more suitable for the increased population. The wish was to make the new
hospital a thanksgiving memorial of the Jubilee year.

The Prince of Wales, in replying to the address, said:--

"Ladies and Gentlemen,--I am most anxious, in my own name, and
also in that of the Princess, to acknowledge the most cordial
and kind words of the address which we have just heard read by
the Vestry Clerk, and also for the kind expressions which have
fallen from Mr. Murdoch. We are very glad to be able to take
part in so interesting a ceremony as this, and we are glad to
think that in so large and ever-increasing a population as this
in the North of London is, the project of commemorating the
Queen's Jubilee should have been so appropriately celebrated by
the building of a hospital. We shall shortly have an opportunity
of visiting the wards, and I have little doubt that we shall
find everything in the most admirable and efficient state.
Amongst the many duties we have to perform, none, I assure you,
ladies and gentlemen, gives us greater gratification and
pleasure than such a function as this, where we come to give our
assistance and support to a philanthropic object, and to a cause
the object of which is to alleviate the sufferin