CO129-446 - Others & Individuals - 1917 — Page 573

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At this meeting we were informed that the parent

Hoppital at No. 37 Bryanston Square accommodated nineteen

beds and the Lady Superintendent confirmed the statement

previously made by the War office that the cost of upkeep

was something less than 24,000 a year.

We contemplated, at this stage, an Extension

similar to the parent institution but on a larger scale and

our idea was that expenditure upon it should absorb at

least the greater part of your funds. It proved, however,

to be very difficult to find a house suitable for the

realisation of this idea, and, in view of this difficulty,

when the Hospital Committee eventually proposed to house

the Extension at No. 34 Bryanston Square, we felt constrained

to agree.

We did not regard this as a satisfactory arrange-

ment from the point of view of the Colony, because the

prospect was that your funds would suffice for the mainten-

ance of the two houses, while the Colony would ostensibly be supporting only one of them, but we could not see any grounds upon which we could base an objection to the

proposal.

Fortunately, before being committed to the lease