Editing Hans Sloane (section)

===Charity work===
Sloane helped out at [[Christ's Hospital]] from 1694 to 1730 and donated his salary back to that institution. He also supported the Royal College of Physicians' dispensary of inexpensive medications and operated a free surgery every morning.<ref name="sloaneletters.com"/>

He was a founding governor of London's [[Foundling Hospital]], the nation's first institution to care for abandoned children. [[Inoculation]] was required for all children in its care; Sloane was one of the physicians of that era who promoted inoculation as a method to prevent [[smallpox]], using it on his own family and promoting it to the royal family.<ref>{{cite journal|title=A visit to the Foundling Museum|first=Marini|last=Edwards|date=1 July 2010|journal=London Journal of Primary Care|volume=3|issue=1|pages=62–63|doi=10.1080/17571472.2010.11493300|pmc=3960684|pmid=25949622}}</ref><ref name="sloaneletters.com">{{Cite web|title=Introducing Sir Hans Sloane – the Sloane Letters Project|url=http://sloaneletters.com/about-sir-hans-sloane/}}</ref> He had been introduced to the concept of inoculation by [[Lady Mary Wortley Montagu]] in the court of [[Caroline of Ansbach|Queen Caroline]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Crilly |first1=Dr Elizabeth |title=Sir Hans Sloane: Scientist? |journal=Lecale Review |date=2022 |issue=20}}</ref>