The ingenious architect, Mr. Wood, was employed to erect it. By an Act of Parliament obtained in the year 1739, the institution was corroborated. By this Act, ninety persons are nominated as Trustees of the establishment, and by the name of the President and Governors of the General Hospital at Bath. The Act further directs, that out of those members, there should be a President, three Treasurers, and a committee of thirty Assistants elected yearly, on the first or second of May, (if the first fall on a Sunday) and that they are to meet weekly to regulate the concerns of the institution.

The following are the RULES to be observed in the
GENERAL HOSPITAL of Bath.

1. That a table of the rules and orders which relate to the conduct of the officers, patients, and servants, be hung up in each ward, and be publicly read over in each ward every Tuesday morning, by the apothecary.

2. That a register be kept, in which shall be entered the names of the patients; the parishes to which they belong; their ages and distempers; the times when taken in and discharged; and whether discharged as cured or incurable; for irregularity; or whether they died in the hospital,

3. That no person in any way belonging to the hospital, do at any time presume (on pain of expulsion) to take of any tradesman, patient, servant, stranger, or other person, any fee, reward, or gratification of any kind, directly or indirectly, for any service done or to be done on account of the hospital.

4. That no liquors or provisions of any sort be brought into the house to the patients or servants, from any person whomsoever, upon pain of expulsion; and that the patients do not borrow or lend money to each other, on pain of expulsion at the next committee.

5. That each of the treasurers keep a key of the poor box.

6. That at every Wednesday's committee, two of the committee shall be appointed house-visitors for the following week.

7. That the house-visitors for the time being, shall take care that no person be received into the house without having regularly complied with all conditions required by the act of parliament.

8. That the house-visitors shall enquire into the management of the whole house.

9. That the house-visitors shall receive the complaints of the patients and servants, each of which they shall examine apart, and enter an account thereof into a book kept for that purpose; which account shall be read at the next committee.

10. That the house-visitors shall examine the meat, malt-liquor, and other provisions brought into the house, to see if they be wholesome and proper.

11. That the house-visitors for the last week in April shall, every year, see that a new inventory be made of all the household goods and furniture in the hospital, and compare it with the inventory of the preceeding year: so that allowing for wear and tear, they may judge whether there be any embezzlement; and if any such shall be found, they shall examine who are chargeable therewith.

12. That the physicians and surgeons of the house shall take their turns to attend the commtttee on Wednesdays, to admit patients.

13. That all patients shall belong to the last taken-in physician and surgeon till the appointment of their successors at the committee on the Wednesday following.

14. That all the physicians and surgeons of the house, with the apothecary, shall meet in the physician's room exactly at twelve o'clock on Monday's in order to visit all the wards together, and then mark such patients as are to be discharged, whose names shall be reported to the next Wednesday's committee by the apothecary.

15. That the physicians and surgeons shall likewise visit the patients on Friday's.

16. That all the physcians and surgeons of this house shall visit the houseapothecary's shop, and examine the drugs and medicines therein, on the first Monday in every month; and that they shall report the condition in which they find it to the next Wednesday's committee.

17. That the same persons shall, on the Monday next preceeding the yearly general court, examine the invoices of all the medicines brought into the shop, that they may judge of the prices, and make their report to the court accordingly.

18. That when any surgeon has any considerable operation to perform, he shall acquaint the physicians and surgeons of the house when it is to be performed, that they may be present if they please.

19. That all patients, who after dismission, shall be found to have an infectious distemper, shall be ordered into a ward, appropriated for that parpose.

20. That no patient be discharged out of this house but at a committee, except he or she bring an order of discharge under the hand of the physician or surgeon attending such patient.

21. That the patients do not drink tea without leave of their physician. nor purchase provisions of any kind, on pain of expulsion.

22. That no patient, nurse, or woman-servant, shall go out without leave of the matron; and that no patient or servant lodging in the house shall he out of the hospital, on any account whatsoever, on pain of expulsion.

23. That no men patients shall go into the women's ward:, nor women into the men's, without leave of the matron.

24. That no patient or servant shall swear, curse or give abusive language, or behave themselves indecently, in any manner, on pain of expulsion. 25. That no patient or servant shall presume to play at card. lice or any other game, within the walls of the hospital, or smoke within the wards. 26. That such patients as are able to work, shall assist the nurses and other servants, in nursing the patients, washing and ironing the linen, wasking and cleansing the wards, and in such other business as the matron shall require.

27. That such persons as are able shall be allowed to go to their respective places of worship on Sundays, in the forenoon and afternoon, when the weather will permit, attended by one of the chairmen to each place of worship; and that they return to the hospital directly as soon as the service is ended.

28. That each patient shall wear a badge numbered; and that the porter and chairmen shall also wear badges; and that no patient go into an alehouse, on pain of expulsion.

29. That the men bathe Tuesday's, Thursday's and Saturday's; the women Mondays', Wednesday's and Friday's; and that the patients do not un

beer or spirituous liquors in the bath, or give the same to the guides, on pain of expulsion.

30. That the matron shall take care of all the household goods and furniture, according to the inventory, and shall give an account thereof when required; and that she shall not dispose of any old clothes of the patients who die, but by direction; and lay by the old linen for the use of the sur

geons.

31. That she shall oversee the patients and servants, take care that the wards, chambers, bed-clothes, linen, and all other things within the hospital, be kept neat and clean; and to that end all the patients and servants shall be submissive and obedient to her.

32. That she shall order in the daily necessary provisions.

33. That the back-door of the hospital shall be kept locked, and that the key thereof be kept by the matron.

34. That the matron shall take care that the doors be locked by nine in. the evening, and not opened before seven in the morning, from Michaelmas to Lady-day; and locked at ten in the evening, and not opened before five in the morning, from Lady-day to Michaelmas, except on special emergen cies in which case she shall see them locked again.

35. That the nurses shall clean their respective wards by seven in the morning, from the first of March to the first of October; and by eight in the morning from the first of October to the first of March; and that they shall serve up the breakfasts within an hour after the wards are cleansed.

36. That they shall behave with tenderness to the patients; with submis→ sion to their superiors; and civility and respect to all strangers.

37. That the porter shall attend at the door, and not suffer any patient to go out, till he is satisfied that such patient hath leave.

38. That upon the porter's absence, notice shall be given to the matron, to appoint one of the chairmen to attend in his room.

39. That the chairmen of the house shall carry out the summonses for the meetings; cleanse the necessaey-houses: and do the other servile business of the house, as directed by the matron.

40. That every servant in this house, who is witness to the violation of any of of these rules, shall discover it to the matron, on pain of expulsion. 41. That no person belonging to this house shall fetch water from the Hot-Bath, excepting those that wear a badge; and that they shall not fetch any after ten o'clock at night, nor dispose of any but to the use of this hospital, on pain of expulsion.

N. B. Persons offending against the last rule are liable to a penalty of ten shillings; or, on non-payment of it, to ten days imprisonment, by virtue of the act of parliament.

The following are the CONDITIONS of ADMISSION
into the GENERAL HOSPITAL.

I. 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 must be sent in a letter (franked or post paid) directed to the Registrar of the General Hospital.

The age and name of the patient ought to be mentioned in the description of the case, and the persons who describe it are

desired to be particular in the enumeration of the symptoms; so that neither improper cases may be admitted, nor proper ones rejected by the physicians and surgeons, who always examine and sign the cases as proper or improper, previously to their being laid before the weekly committee.

If the patient has any fever upon him, as long as the fever continues, he will be deemed improper. Patients with coughs attended with pain in the chest, or spitting of blood are improper; as are also those with abscesses, or with any external ulcers, until such ulcers be healed.

From want of attention to the above particulars, and notwithstanding the cautions frequently given, by printing the conditions of admission in the public papers, very imperfect descriptions of cases have been, and are still sent; and many patients have been discharged as improper soon after their admission, to the disappointment of the patient thus sent.

2. After the patient's case has been thus described and sent he must remain in his usual place of residence till he has notice of a vacancy, signified by a letter from the Registrar, accom. panied by a blank 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 attested before two Justices for the county or city to which the patient belongs; and three pounds caution-money, if from any part of England or Wales; but if the patient comes from Scotland or Ireland, then the caution money, to be deposited before admission, is five pounds.

4. Soldiers may, instead of parish certificates, bring a certificate from their commanding officers, signifying to what corps they belong, and that they should be received into the same corps when discharged from the hospital, in whatever condition they are. And the same is expected from the Governors of Chelsea and Greenwich hospitals respecting their pensioners. But it is necessary that their cases be described, and sent previously, and they bring with them three pounds caution-money.

N. B The intention of the caution-money is to defray the expences of returning the patients after they are discharged from the hospital; or of the burial, in case they die there.

Should any remain, the overplus is returned. All poor persons coming to Bath under pretence of getting into the hospital, without having their cases thus described, will be treated as vagrants, according to the hospital act.

If any have the small pox, the caution-money must defray the expense of removal. If a patient is unprovided with decent and necessary apparel, such must also be had out of it. W. Dickinson, esq. M. P. President,

Sir W. Watson, C. Phillott, esq. Dr. Harington, Treasurers, Drs. Falconer, Parry, and Gibbes, Physicians,

J. Phillott, M. Nichols, and II. Tudor, esqrs. Surgeons.

THE BATH CITY DISPENSARY AND ASYLUM.

The poor. of Bath not being admitted into the General Ios. pital, because they might be accommodated in their own houses, and reap the benefit of the water at a moderate expence; some benevolent persons founded a hospital in 1747, where they might receive every assistance that medical knowledge or chirurgical skill could afford; it was called the pauper charity. In 1792, the design being greatly improved, it was opened as the Bath City Dispensary and Asylum, for the reception of the poor with dangerous and urgent cases; while the afflicted with maladies of a less pressing nature, receive every assistance as out-patients. Of this establishment

Mrs. Long is Patroness,

W. Gore Langton, esq. M. P. President,

J. Sabatier, esq. and G. Robinson, esq. Vice-Presidents,
Messrs. Hobhouse and Co. Treasurers,

J. Moodie, M. D. S. Crawford, M. D. and J. Murray, M. D.
Physicians,

Mr. Creaser, Mr. W. White, and Mr. C. Cruttwell, Surgeons, Mr. John Crosby, House-Apothecary.

The following are the RULES of the Establishment: Persons receiving parish pay are inadmissible, and no pa