6 special hospitals, possessing an aggregate
income of 117,218 pounds; making the income of the general and special
hospitals taken together amount to 272,834 pounds. There are also
returns from 42 general dispensaries, possessing incomes from all sources
of 21,000 pounds; and 18 special dispensaries, with annual incomes of
8064 pounds. If these two sums, making 29,064 pounds, be added to the
former, it gives the enormous amount of 301,898 pounds annually expended
in medical charities in this metropolis; and this sum, large as it is,
excludes Samaritan and other funds connected with hospitals and
dispensaries, poor-law medical relief (28,776 pounds), cost of
maintenance of pauper lunatics (79,988 pounds), vaccination (4292
pounds), and nurses' training institutions. All these sums would make a
grand total of nearly half a million expended on our sick poor. The City
Missionaries now number 325, and every missionary visits once a month
about 500 families or 2800 persons. The Ragged School Union has its
ramifications in every part of the metropolis. Their returns are 128
Sunday Schools with 16,937 scholars in attendance; 98 day ditto, with
13,057; 117 evening schools with 8085; and 84 industrial classes with
3224. London has 12 societies for the reformation of life and public
morals with a total income of 11,583 pounds; 18 for reclaiming the
fallen, and staying the progress of crime, with 35,036 pounds; 14 for the
relief of general destitution and distress, with 23,880 pounds; 12 for
the relief of specified distress, with 29,881 pounds; 14 for aiding the
resources of the industrious, with 7246 pounds; 11 for the blind, deaf,
and dumb, with 34,762 pounds; 103 colleges, hospitals, and other asylums
for the aged (exclusive of Chelsea and Greenwich Hospitals, 83,047
pounds); 16 charitable pension societies, with 18,989 pounds; 74
charitable and provident societies, chiefly for specified classes, with
103,227 pounds; 31 asylums for orphans and other necessitous children,
with 81,015 pounds; 10 educational foundations, exclusive of libraries,
modern colleges, or proprietary schools, 93,112 pounds; 4 charitable
ditto, with 13,300 pounds; 40 school societies, religious book,
church-aiding, and Christian instructing, irrespective of government
grants or establishments, with an income, taking the sale of
publications, as much as 318,189 pounds. Mr Low gives the total number
of charitable institutions as 500; Mr Mayhew puts dow