Cassell's Old and new Edinburgh: its history, its people, and its places . cceptof the trust: allthis was to bedone under theauthority of themanagers, ar«lto continue inforce until theysaw cause toalter it. About 1769the ordinarypatients, exclu-sive of soldiersand servants,averaged aboutsixty; but thefunds havinggrown apace,eighty were the phy-sicians, on a due consideration of certain casesthought otherwise, no more were to be admitted,and those taken in, so long as they remainedsupernumeraries, were expected to pay sixpenceper day. Dr. John .Stedman, on the 2nd of August, 17
Cassell's Old and new Edinburgh: its history, its people, and its places . cceptof the trust: allthis was to bedone under theauthority of themanagers, ar«lto continue inforce until theysaw cause toalter it. About 1769the ordinarypatients, exclu-sive of soldiersand servants,averaged aboutsixty; but thefunds havinggrown apace,eighty were the phy-sicians, on a due consideration of certain casesthought otherwise, no more were to be admitted,and those taken in, so long as they remainedsupernumeraries, were expected to pay sixpenceper day. Dr. John .Stedman, on the 2nd of August, 1773,was elected in place of Dr. Drummond, who hademigrated to liristol ; but his health was so infirm,that in 1775 Dr. Black was chosen in his place,and afterwards Dr. James Hamilton senior, longone of the ornaments of the city ; and after ob-taining also the office of physician to George. Heriots, the Trades Maiden, and Merchant MaidenHosi)itals, he superintended these benevolent insti-tutions for ipwards of fifty years. . an estimate of the good accomplished it may. ) ROYAI. IMIKMAUY, 1S2O, be mentioned that between 1770 and 1775 thenumbers admitted yearly at an average amountedto 1,567^, and the number of deaths 63J, and,omitting fractional parts, the deaths were to tlienumbers admitted as i to 25. In 1778 the total number of patients with theirattendants made up a family of 230, but so rapidhas been the increase of the population, that be-tween October 1846 and October 1S47 no fewerthan patients sought refuge within its these 1,059 died— a large number no doubt, says a report,? still, but forsuch a house ofrefuge, howmany morewould havelireathed outtheir last amidstthe noxiousabodes of ourcity, spreadingwider and widerthe pestilent! ilcalamity whichhas swept awayits thousands ofvictims in allparts of thecountry. In the yearI .S48 the chap-lain was re-(luired by newregulations toread a portionof the Scrip-tures, and en-gage in devo-tional exercises in
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