• DIRECTORY.] Kinghamford Hundred :-Barham, Bishopsbourne, Den­ sistant medical officers; Rev. Henry Sylvester Alison ton (parI; of), Kingston, Lydden (det.) &; Wootton RA. chaplain; Thomas William Dadd, steward and (part of). clerk; Mrs. Sarah A. Hulse, matron. Larkfield Hundred :-Addington, Allington, Birling, Bur­ The East Lunatic Asylum, erected in 1875 on ham, Ditton, East MaIling, Leybourne, Offham, Fad­ Chartham Downs at & cost of £250,000, from designs by dlesworth, Ryarsh, St. Margaret (part of), Snodland, Messrs. Giles and Gough, is a red brick building, com­ Trotterscliffe &; Wouldham. manding & fine view of the river Stour and covering Little & Lessness Hundred :-Crayford, East Wickham, with its grounds an area of 70 acres; the buildings. Erith &; Plumstead. which have been extended, consist of central entrance, with offices and committee rooms, two blocks on either Littlefield Hundred :-Parts of East Peckham, Hadlow, side, six in the rear and a chapel in the centre; it will Mereworth &; West Peckham. hold 500 men and 600 women; Gerald Crowfoot Fitz­ Longport Hundred :-Parts of Midley, New &; Old gerald M.D., B.C., M.R.O.S.Eng. medical superinten­ Bomney. dent; William Everett M.D., O.M. senior assistant medi­ Loaingborough Hundred :-Acrise (part of), Elham, Ly­ cal officer; John Edgar Shera L.R.C.P. and L.S. and minge, Paddlesworth, Stelling (part of), Stelling Minnis L.M.IreI. second assistant medical officer; Oecil Hubert & Upper Hardres (part of). Gostwyck Gostwyck M.B. and Ch.B.Edin. third as­ si!'tant; Rev. Neville Albert Halt RA. chaplain; Henry Hundred :-Boxley, , East Fielding, Canterbury, clerk to the committee of visitors; '(ex. par.), , Hunton (part of), Linton, Norman Henry Sibley, clerk and steward; Thomas S. Loose, Maidstone., Marden (part of), (part Derrick, assistant clerk and steward; Miss Margaret of) &; West Barming. McMaster, matron. :Marden Hundred :-Parts of Gouldhurst, Mardten & The West Kent and General Hospital, at Maidstone. Staplehurst. e.stablished in 1832, is a building in the rusticated Milton Hundred :-Bapchild, (part of), &bbing, Italian style, and consists of a. central block, including Borden, Bredgar, Elmley, Hartlip, Kingsdown, Lower the principal entrance and a retiring wing on either Halstow, Milsted., Milton, Murston, Newington, Rain. side. During the year 1901 there were received 707 in. ham, Rodmersham, Sittingboume, (part patients, 4,704 out-patient~ and 1,319 casualty cases; of), Tonge, Tunstall &; Upchurch. 21 patients were also sent to the seaside during the Newchurch Hundred (part of; for remainder see Liberty year. The children's ward, added in 1883, holds 1~ of Bomney Marsh) :-Parts of Bilsington &; Ruckinge. cots and 2 cradles, and in 1886 it was handsomely decorated at the expense of a lady resident in the Ne-wenden Hundred :-Fart of Newenden. neighbourhood. The Hollingworth memorial wing was Ospringe Hundred :-Part of Ospringe. opened in July, 1889, and a Jubilee Memorial wing and Oxney Hundred: Parts of Ebony & Stone & WiUersham. chapel added in 1898; Charles Edwal'd Hoar M.D. John Edward Meredith RA., M.D., M.Ch. and Charles Boyce, Ringslow Hundred :-Minster (part of), Monkton, No physicians; Adolphus Hy. Blackwood HaJ10wes M.R.O.S. Man's Island, St. Lawrence, St. Nicholas-at-Wade & Eng. E. GrQund M.D. and Frederick Thomas Travers Stonar. M.B., F.R.O.S.Eng. surgeons; Albert Edward Anderson RGllvenden Hundred :-Beneden (part of) &; Rolvenden. L.D.S.F.P. and S.Glas., D.D.S. dental surgeon; Charles Ruxley Hundred' :-Bexley, Chelsfield, Chiddingstone James Izzal'd Krumbholz M.B.Lond. house surgeon; (det.), Chislehurst, Cndham, Downe, Farnborough, William Cuthbert Lewis, sec.; Miss Isa,bel Jones, lady Foot's Cray, Hayes, Hever (part of), Keston, Knock­ superintendent. holt, North Cray, Orpington, St. Mary Cray, St. The Kent and Canterbury Hospital, in Longport street, Pa.ul's Cray &; West Wickham. Canterbury, instituted in 1793, owes its origin to the St. Martin's, Longport (detached; for other part see late well-known Canterbury physician, Dr. Carter, for­ Liberty of Romney Marsh) :-Ivychurch (part of), merly fellow of Oriel College, Oxford; two additional Midley (de.t.), &; parts of New & Old Romney. wings have been added and it now contains 104 beds; Seasa.lter Hundred :-Part of Seasalter. the number of in-patients treated during the year 1901 was 749, 931 out-patients and 1,476 casualties, besides Selbrittenden Hundred :-Parts of Benenden, Hawkhurst 368 dental ca.ses; H. A. Gogarty RA., M.D. physician; & Newenden &; Sandhurst. james Reid F.R.C.S.Eng. and Frank Wacher M.R.O.S. Shamwell Hundred :-Chalk, Cliffe, Cobham, Cooling, Eng. consulting surgeons; Thomas Whitehead Reid Cuxton, Denton, Frindsbury, HaIling, Higham, Shome L.R.O.P.Lond. John Greasoo.y M.R.C.S.Eng. 'Sidney & Strood (part of). Wacher F.R.C.S.Eng. and Zachariah Prentice M.R.e.S. Sheppey Hundred :-Eastchurch, Leysdown, Minster, Eng. surgeons; Richard Sydney Newman Faro L.D.S. Queenborough & Warden. Eng. dental surgeon; Norman Routh Phillips M.RO.S. Somerden Hundred :-Brasted (det.), &; parts of Chid­ Eng., L.RD.P.Lond. house surgeon; William H. Duncan dingstone, Cowden, Edenbridge, Hever, Leigh, Pens­ L.R.C.P. and S.Edin. assistant house surgeon; Rev. hurst & part of Speldhurst. Matthew Flyn Evans, chaplain; Arthur J. Lancaster, sec.; Miss M. A..Messum, matron.

His Majesty's Prison, Canterbury, a red brick build· The Kent County Ophthalmic Hospital, at Maidstone, ing, surrounded by high walls, erected in 1808, was founded in 1847, is a building in a. simple Tudoresque formerly the house of correction for East Kent, and style, and is entirely supported by voluntary contribu­ 'Since the transfer of prisons to the Government in 1878, tions; since 18g1 it has been much improved, an opera­ it has been greatly enlarged and will now hold 199 males tion room added and a chapel built; the building is and 18 females; Capt. T. O. Holland, governor; Rev. capable of receiving 42 in-patients, and during the year J"(.hn Haworth M.A. chaplain; William Pugin Thornton 1901, 250 in-patients and 3,520 out-patients were re. ceived. Ernest A. Cartwright M.A., M.B., B.Ch., M.R.O.S.Eng. medical officer; E. W. J3aldwin, clerk and surgl~on; st{)rekeeper; William Kitchen, chief warder. L.R.O.P.Lond., D.P.H. J. Hughlings-Jackson M.D., F.R.S.Edin. and Charles Hoar M.D., L.R.O.P. His Majesty's Prison, at Maidstone, was begun in ISIl Lond. consulting physicians; Jonathan Hutchinson­ and completed in 1818 a.t a cost of [200,000; and is F.R.C.S.Eng. and Matthew Algernon Adam.s F.RO.S. authorised ro receive 229 males and 68 females, but is Eng. consulting surgeons; George Bullock Bunter, dental further available for 128 additional inmates. surgeon; George Pot.t,s L.R.O.P. and L.RC.S.Edin. house , governor; Rev. William Henry Jackson, chap­ surgeon; Samuel Harman, sec.; Miss Gertrude Brown, lain; Rev. G. Le. Bosquet, Catholic chaplain; Charles matron. Edward Hoar M.D. medical officer; Harry John Evans, The Ronl Sea Bathing Infirmary, or Royal National chief clerk and storekeeper; Frederic.k E. Brown, as­ Hospital for Scrofula, Margate, founded in 1791, for the :sistant clerk; Richard Warren, chief warder. treatment of scrofulous disease in all its forms, has now The County Lunatic Asylum, opened ISt January, 220 beds and is open all the year round, annually receiving ~ 1:833, and since greatly enlarged, comprises an ext-ensive 500 or 600 patients from all parts of , of whom ..ange of stone buildings, at Barming Heath, 2 miles more than half come from London and its neighbour­ frem Maidstone, 250 feet above the river Medway; in hood; through the liberality of the. late Sir James­ 1902 it contained 1,368 inmates (634 men and 734 Erasmus Wilson LL.D., F.R.S. a new wing with a chapel women); Francis Pritehard Davies M.D., C.M. medical and tepid swimming bath was added in 1882, at a. cost superintendent; Charles Leighton Bopkins RA., M.B., of about £3°,000; Thomas Smith Rowe M.D., M.R.C.S. E.C. WaIter Edgar Collier M.R.C.S.Eng., L.R.C.P.Lond. Eng. and WiIliam Knight Treves F.R.C.S.Eng. consulting ­ Edward Swales L.R.O.P.Lond., M.R.C.S.Eng. and Henry surgeons; Benram Thornton L.R.O.P.Lond., M.R.O.5. Eme8t Christian Quin L.R.C.P. and L.R.C.S.Edin. as· Eng. Arthur Walton Rowe M.B., M.S., M.RO.S.Eng.