BUILDING HOSPITALS WITH PILLS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 27 March 1907, Page 4

BUILDING HOSPITALS WITH PILLS.

Pills and philanthropy! Why is it they are so frequently found in association? The reason would possibly be hard to seek. But there can bo no dispute as to their being so associated. Only the other day it was announced that the late Mr Charles Fulford, proprietor up till his death last August of two or tho best advertised specifics in tho world, had w»!led one-fifth share in his immense business to Dr Barnardo's Homes. The widow of another patent medicine millionaire, whoso announcements stare om in the face from every newspaper in two hemispheres, gave £800.(X)0 in charitw some few years back, and has anr.ounad her intention of sotting aside two millions sterling for a pet philanthropic scheme of hers, which lias, for its object the amelioration of the lot in life of the Little children of the very poor. "Dr." St. John Long, who was one of tho earliest vendors of quack cure-alls U> make a really large fortune, died intestate in 1834; but his widow distributed very large sums in charity during her life, and bequeathed at her death the greater portion of the residue of her wealth to various refuges and aims-houses. Last, but by no means last, comes the pesiuSoooj jffpHouaS ej n ipassnosip pti® pill proprietors, who gave the Government £250,000 to erect at Virginia Water the splendid sanatorium which now bears his insane, and hospitals for incurables and name. This is for the use of the middle clashes, and includes an asylum for the convalescents. In addition he founded and endowed, at a total cost of some £350,000, tho Royal ; Holloway College for the Higher Educar | tion, which was opened by Queen Victoria in person on Jun« 30, 1886.