London Hospital Act 1899
WHEREAS the London Hospital was in or about the year one thousand seven hundred and forty erected on a site in the parish of Saint Mary Whitechapel in the county of London fronting the Mile End Road by a society formed for the purpose of relieving the sick and diseased poor in the city of London and borough of Southwark:

And whereas by a charter or letters patent granted by His late Majesty King George the Second and dated the ninth day of December one thousand seven hundred and fifty-eight ...