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work_bw7muugykfcktlzpx7jgjr44fy	W H Williams	The 'Industrious poor' and the founding of the Pennsylvania Hospital	1973	13	.pdf	application/pdf	5169	280	61	Philadelphia General evolved, antedates the Pennsylvania Hospital by some twenty years. These voluntary hospitals were spawned by a reform movement that swept Great Britain during the eighteenth century. 5 Benjamin Franklin, Some Account of the Pennsylvania Hospital, I. hands of the founders of the Pennsylvania Hospital at that institution's inception, there is reason to believe that the supporters and 14 Alured Clarke, A Proposal For Erecting a Public Hospital (Winchester, 1736), 5; Gentlemarts Magazine, XI (London, 1741), 475; XIII (London, 1743), 640; Richard Grey, A Sermon Leaders in the British voluntary hospital movement, while generally castigating the lazy-poor as an unjustified burden to public made in eighteenth-century America and the founders of the Pennsylvania Hospital, with the exception of Franklin, did not speak to 2 7 An Account of the Rise and Establishment of the Infirmary, Or Hospital for the Sick-poor, 28 Sick-poor applicants to most eighteenth-century British hospitals had to be suffering	./cache/work_bw7muugykfcktlzpx7jgjr44fy.pdf	./txt/work_bw7muugykfcktlzpx7jgjr44fy.txt