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The British Home and Hospital for Incurables.
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HE BRITISH HOME AND HOSPITAL FOR INCURABLES was founded in 1861 to assist in supplying an important and acknowledged want among the Until a recent date no great Charities with which the Metropolis abounds. Institution for the reception of the Incurable existed in England, whilst it has been clearly ascertained that the number of persons who annually die of incurable disease in the United Kingdom amounts to about two hundred thousand.
Among these there must necessarily be many who claim the strongest sympathy of the benevolent. There are those who are able to procure for themselves all the aid and the alleviation of which their cases admit; but there are also very many who- with failing health and strength, and the slow and insidious approach of incurable disease, and its frequent accompaniments of racking pain-have gradually fallen from No the comforts and enjoyments of affluence to the utmost destitution and want. person can read the simple narrative of the distressing cases brought forward from time to time without feeling the deepest commiseration; and it is to relieve this deep and crying misery that the aid of the charitable is now most earnestly solicited.
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