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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1937.
£8 A MINUTE
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Facing Deficit of £88,000
IT costs over £8 a minute to run London's 145 hospitals. They need between them £11,600 a day. More than half this sum they get from patients' payments and from income on investments.
But £4,900 a day must be raised by gifts.
Last year the 145 hospitals were £200 a day short on the volun- tary gifts side,
There are prosperous hospitals among them which show a stendy surplus; but the aggregate receipts in 1936 for all of them showed a deficit of £6-1,000. pluses, 59 with deficits.
Deer Choose Right Deadline
Frankfort, N. Y.. Three deer were reported plackily grazing with cattle in Frank W. Hauser's pasture whilo Just a few miles to the north deer hunters' shots were safe, however, because Frank- fort is on the south bank of the
echoed through the woods. The deer
Mohawk river, and deer hunting is prohibited south of the river.
Volunteer Firemon
Irked
Greybull, Wyo. The volunteer fire department of There were 86 hospitals with sur-Greybull answered an alarm by rushing to their fire house to get their engines, but the blaze destroyed a residence before they arrived. Some- body had broken into the fire hall and siphoned all the gasoline out of the are engine tanks,
This is the first net aggregate deficit since 1926, the year of the General Strike, and it is ascribed "largely to the adverse fortunes of some of the 12 general hospitals which run medical teaching schools.'
Their 208,000 defcit overweighed the fact that the number of hospitals which hnd returned a surplus for the year was actually greater.
Even so, the income would have covered expenditure had it not been for a drop in the amount of legacies. The report of the King Edward's Hospital Fund for London--the co- ordinating authority-announces total general und Income
But £4.100,000, the same aa in 1935. expenditure rose from £1,075,000 (in
1935) to £4,200,000 last year.
of
WHERE MONEY GOES More beds (there are now 18,160) and new freatment for patients have been costing larger sums. The four principal items in the Joint haspitals bill were:
Salaries and wages Domestic
£1,€35,000 £ 699,000 Provisions
2012.000 Surgery and dispensary £527.000 During the year the average num- ber of beds occupied (15,190) In- creased by 100. There were 280,200 new in-patients (6,100 more), and 1,041,000 out-patients (increase of 60,000).
Out-patients attended the hospitals 10,005,000 times, against 9,811,000 in 1935.
M.P. SUSPENDED FOR
BAD LANGUAGE
Mr. David Kirkwood, Clydeside Socialist M.P., who in 1922 was one of five who carried the vote in favour of electing Mr. Ramsay MacDonald leader of the Parliamentary Labour Party and thereby helped to make him Premier two years later, flew into a rage in the House of Commons recently und was suspend- cd by a vote of 178 to 104.
Mr. Kirkwood, whose eyes were therefore liable to suspension.
Mr. Kirkwood sat for 11 few moist with tears at the death of
his close friend, moments, then rose and walked out, Mr. MacDonald,
when a which is the technical acceptance of mutter 1 and mumbled Ministerial reply to a question did tho Speaker's order to withdraw. not sult him.
Captain FitzRoy, the Speaker, rose and said: "If Mr. Kirkwood cannot behave himself I shall have to ask
a to leave the HousC."
Mr. Kirkwood: "I don't give a
damn."
The Speaker asked him to with- draw.
draw"
Mr. Kirkwood: "I will not with-
The Speaker: "I shall have to nome Mr. Kirkwood"--l.c., name him as disobedient to the Chair, and
But as he reached the line be tween the publle debating cham- ber and the private areas of the Parliament buildings he whipped round arid exclaimed to the Speaker: "Don't Iceture me. you think you are going to get treating me like a boy? That is what you would like to do. I don't tive a damn
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Mr. Neville Chamberlain, sitting. ready to deliver his personni tribute to his former chief, had no alterna- live but to move the suspension of Mr. Kirkwood.
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