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investigate the actual working of the
institution.
The immediate proposal is that the
Colonial Government should guarantee an over-
draft for the Corporation to the extent of
$60,000. I think it is clear that the
Government cannot allow these hospitals to
default and that they form a necessary part
of the medical organization. In this case I
think we shall have to approve the suggestion.
It appears to me, however, that we should press
for increased Government control of the actual
administration of these hospitals.
Though
this may raise difficulties with the Board of
Directors, it seems clear that their
administration, both financial and possibly from
the medical point of view also, is unsatisfactory,
and I suggest that there is no point in
continuing Government grants to bolster up a
Board of this kind, and that it would be best,
even at increased cost to Government, to take
over the hospitals if necessary and put them
on a satisfactory basis. To do this, a
Commission such as was suggested by the 0.A.G.
seems a useful preliminary.
pout quamanter of an
? Telegraph approval of the overdraft
of $60,000 and add that the Secretary of State
would be in favour of the appointment of a
Commission to enquire into the working of the
Corporation and that he would be prepared to
consider largely increased Government control
in view of the apparently unsatisfactory nature
of the present system/
system/
P. Rayers
22 1x 37.