The King's College Hospital book of cooking recipes

The compilers desire to convey their thanks to all those ladies who have so kindly furnished material for the production of this work. At the same time they take this opportunity of explaining that it was impossible to insert all the recipes received, partly owing to the restrictions of space, and partly because many of them were practically duplicates of recipes which appear in the book. With regard to the title, it must not be assumed that all the dishes contained in this work are comprised in the cuisine of King’s College Hospital, but the work may be said to justify its title inasmuch as all the contents have been contributed by friends of the institution. Many of the recipes are old family ones, which have never before been printed. Where a name appears at the foot of a recipe, it denotes the person by whom such recipe was sent in, and is not to be taken as an indication of authorship. As already stated on the cover the proceeds of the sale of this book, after paying expenses, will be devoted to the fund for the removal of King’s College Hospital to South London. Readers are therefore asked to recommend the work to their friends as widely as possible. The compilers trust that, as cookery books go, this one will be found to be no bad shillingsworth. BLOCK PLAN OF THE FUTURE KING’S COLLEGE HOSPITAL. 77/// 7y#/'/VA/7(7 <«u Q Medical Ward Block (Two Floors) E Clinical Theatre J Casualty Pejvrtment O Medical School, P Mortuary (Three Floors) F Gyn. Op. Pm. ami Clinical Theatre K Out-Patient Department Q Isolation Block Surgical Ward Block (Two Floors) G 8 Op rating and 1 Clinical Theatre L Administration Block R ,, Administration ,i (Three Floors) H Bathing Establishment M & N Special Wards Y Chapel In 1903 it was decided to remove King’s College Hospital to South London. This step met with the strong approval and support of the Committee of King Edward’s Hospital Fund. Principal Reasons for the Removal. Owing to the clearance of its slums during the past thirty years, and the gradual dispersal of its poor population, the west central district of London is now provided with Hospitals far in excess of its requirements. King’s College Hospital (224 beds) stands to-day in the centre of a “ depopulated ” area occupied principally by business premises ; and within a mile and a half are ten large general Hospitals. South of the Thames an enormous poor population has been growing up for fifty years. If a line be drawn east and west through Camberwell Green, it will traverse a district inhabited by a million and a half poor people, utterly unprovided with hospital accommodation. In 1892 a Select Committee appointed by the House of Lords strongly urged that at the first opportunity either a large general Hospital should be built in Camberwell, or an existing Hospital should be transferred thither. Cbe Reiv hospital. In order to provide an adequate building for the requirements of the locality, it was estimated that a sum of at least £300,000 would be immediately required. An appeal was made to the public, and shortly afterwards an ideal site of twelve acres on Denmark Hill was presented by the Hon. W. F. D. Smith, M.P. HE CENT'S Nnc3°2^LJ UNIVEMSITY COI.L IIO.S I. ON DON IIOMcr.r MIllDLESEX sov 111 3'CKOHCE'S SafeSi fiSig®