CO129-446 - Others & Individuals - 1917 — Page 579

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574

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(2)

(3)

That expenditure upon the proposed Extension

of the Royal Flying Corps Hospital shall be re-

gulated according to the funds made available by

the Hongkong War Charities Committee, it being

understood that out of their total annual

contribution to the Royal Flying Corps Hospital

not less than seventy five per cent to eighty per

cent shall be expended on the Extension.

That in the first instance the Extension

shall be equipped to accommodate twenty five

patients but that it shall be within the discre-

tion of this Committee either to restrict admission

to twenty patients or to raise the number to as

many as may from time to time seem justified by

the state of the funds.

That the Royal Flying Corps Hospital Accounts

shall be kept in such a way as to display the

outgoings for equipment, maintenance and adminis-

tration of the Extension separately from the

outgoings at No. 37 Bryanston Square and the

Convalescent Homes.

Subsequently it was found impossible to

obtain the lease of No. 19 Stratford Place on terms satis-

factory to us. It was now over four months since the

undertaking had been given to find accommodation for the

Extension "as soon as your contribution was assured", and

we considered that our duty was to refer the whole matter

to