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A special meeting of the President and Wells, and when she died, a year and a General Council of King Edward's Hos-half later, we were informed that she pital Fund for London was held recently also had bequeathed to the King's Fund at St. James's Palner for the purpose the residue of her estate. In each case of conkittering a repost by the Manage the use of the legacy was left to the ment Committee an at the reconnuenda alolute disertion of the council. The come six tions of the Almlar or Casra Disposal announcement happened to Committee, the aed for additional months ago, just when the need for a voluntary hospital" arruimentation, and forward movemeaf was in our minds.

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Now that the council "has approved the general principle, the Distribution Committee pan prepare plans for the Retual use of the money. They have Buckingham Palace, Jnly with

already collected a good deal of infor- Although, as you are aware, the Kingmation about the most urgent needs of has always strugla miramed the the hospitals. One of these, the need for policy of placing legueirs to capital additional accident beds, especially in account, his Majesty in this instan South Loudon, has been brought before. having due regard to the fact that the the public more than once in large bequests of Lord Mount Stephen, souths, and we were glad to bear from and Sir Thomas Sutherland have been Sir Cooper Perry that the decision of dealt with in this matter, fully up the King's Fund/to-day will enable im- proves of the proposal to apply the mediate action to be taken to meet that recrut legacies of Mr. and Mrs. Wells need. The Distribution Committee have towards helping the hospitals of Lon-also before them a long list of schemes ... dag. Das birth in extensions of extension and improvement, and they improvements, and other urgent needs, know if good deal about the other special The King gratified that the fund needs that exist. The Wells' legacies by should be in a position to afford at the themselves will not enable us to make present time this morial assistance to the voluntary hospitals.

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VOLUNTARY (HOSPITAL WORK,

the grants we shouki like to make. The Distribution Committee will have to select this cases where extra help, given for promised specially during the next few months, will in their opinion, have, the greatest efives and produce the greatest benefit to the voluntary hospital syst in London. They indiente in their report The lesi! tushganding's that they will take into account the efforts message given ahur, užsotank that his minde by the hospitals themselves, so that Imngrid Hichnow Teferi Makonnen, the grants may be not only a help but Regent or dissima. on his vicial visit also a stimulus, to London had given" 2500 to the fund, The King's Fund is thus making its for which they were most sincerely grate-special contribution to the forward move- fal His Royal Highness continued: Iment. The Schemes of extension or inf- wonder if deig is as one who still thinks provement originate in most cases with the hospitals themselves: the greater the voluntary toodard ng kom in sluttl, or dying. If so, let him look at the facts part of the funds for each achetic, and

Feen in for the subsequent maintenance of the! 1920, when the crisis was at its worst, additional beds, is provided by those who tike kupitwin f Tandon had an income are interested in the particular hospital of £2,100,000 as against £1,300,000 before concerned. or by the efforts of its own the war. Since 1990 their income has workers. The King's Fund cannot be increased to f2.850.000, without counting and does not want to be, a substitute for any of the E100.000 raised by the com that individual interest and individual bined appeal; 4900,000 has been added to effort which, under the voluntary system, their endowments; and £1.100,000 has been is the source of life to the individual hos. received for extensions and improve pital The King's Fund bas its own par Its concerned with meats. This means that, over and abovelicular function. their annual income which last year was the needs of London as a whole, and with nearly twice what it was before the war, the relative needs of the different dis- the voluntary hospitals, in London alone, Itricts. It has exceptional means of com. have received in three years two and alparing the circumstances of the various half millions for special purposes. And hospitals. And where a donar or testa- this does not include the additions, dutor is not specially interested in any one ing this same period, to the investments institution, but desires to benefit th has of the King's Fund itself.

pitals of London generally, or to have

HOSPITAL FINANCE.

In the case of these recent legacies

Then, again, there are 1,600 mare beds his gift distributes in proportion to urets than there were before the war, and the his gift distributed in proporting to extension schemes now in hand, ar pro-needs, he can. if he so wishes, avail him posed would add another 1,000. This self of these facilities.

This is not the first time the King's is not decay or death it is life-and very vigorous life. More than that, it is Fund has been selected as the agency growth, The hospitals are not satisfied for the administration of large sums for with merely making both ends meet the benefit of the hospitals, Sonetimes) difficult as that seemed a short while ago. the donor has given the money for A They are constantly expanding in resupplementary distribution, thereby add- ponse to the ever-growing need for better g substantial percentage to each of Sometimes e equipment and more beds. Even during the ordinary grants. the crisis they never que stopped doing testator hus wished permanently to in this. Extensions and improvements, like crease the income from endowments. so many other good things, were delayed Sometimes the Conneil has been given an- by the war, but they still went on here fettered discretion to decide in what way and there. After the war new schemes the wift will help the hospitals most. In came with a rush: so much so that the such cases it has been the general custom King's Fund had sometimes to act, much to use the legacies partly to increase the against its will, as a restraining force; distribution, and partly to add to the There is thus nothing taking the view that, except in specially invested funds. urgent cases, the maintenance of the hos new, in principle, in the decision we have pitals, as a whole, must have precedence taken to-day. over appeals for capotal expenditure in any particular instance. The distribution of the surplus funds of the Red Cross it has been generally agreed that the Society and the Order of St. John, frst thing to be done was to increase the through the King's Fund, helped a large permanent income, and, therefore, the number of scheines. Nevertheless, a good value of the annual distribution as many had still to be postponed.

steadying factor in hospital nunce. The But gradually the position has changed, legacies of Mr. and Mrs., Wells came just With the aid of the temporary Govern when the bequests of Lord Mount ment grants and the combined appeal, Stephen and Sir Thomas Sutherland had most of the defeits are paid off. Income keen used in this way, and when the fir of all kinds, voluntary contributions, cumstances of the hospitals demanded patients' payments and workmen's collee immediate assistance to meet special tions, the ordinary distribution of the nerds, and a definite stimulus to fresh King's Fund, all are increasing. There activity in particular directions-espe are, unfortunately, some institutions still cially in connection with extensions, and in grave financial diffenities. And the improvements, and better provision for The Management Con- hospitals are all faced with the increased accident ename. expense involved in new methods of mittee, formel for the purpose of en- medical diagnosis and treatment. But, abling rapid action to be taken when re- taken as a whole, they have been able to quired seized the opportunity: the coun turn their attention more and more to el, at this special, merting, has given its extension. The King's Fand last Decem approval; and the result, we trust and her increased its grants in aid of schemes. believe, will be that these large legacies The public, which by its gifts helped will have enabled the King's Fund to to save the hospitals in 1929, is now, with bring a very special benefit, at a critical equal generosity, supporting their new moment, to the hospitals of London, and ventures. More than one large appeal for thus to contribute once more towards the special objects, such as endowment, resolution of the difficulties with which the is faced. construction or extension, has in recent voluntary hospital system months been conspicuously successiol.

THE KING'S FUND: /*

(Hear hear.).

Lady Ampthill, in moving a vote of thanks to his Royal Highness the Prince The action taken by the King's "Fuad of Wales for presiding, said that the to-day should give a grent stimulus to council fully realised the value of his this movement. We helped the hospitals Royal Highness's continued interest in in the crisis, first by our emergency dis- the Fand and the hospitals. Although tribution, and then by organising, with they might not always express their feel- their assistance, the Combined Appeal. ings as eloquently as did their brothers We can now, I am glad to say, "do some- and sisters in the Dominions during the thing to help them to meet the new needs. Prince's visits there, they in England did For our power to do this we are indebted appreciate and admire his work just as to the receipt of three large legacies, highly.

The bequests of Lord Mount-Stephen and The Chief Rabbi (the Rev. J. H. Hertz, Sir Thomas Sutherland have increased, D.D.), in seconding, said that the council the permanent income of the fund by would wish to thank his Royal Highness $40,000 a year, thus substantially assist for the helpful situation to which they ing the hospitals to meet, their current had listened that morning, expenditure. And now we have the lega The motion was carried with acclama- cien of the late Mr. and Mrs. Wells, which tion.

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will probably amount to over £200,000; His Royal Highnese the Prince of

and we have decided to use these, in Wales, having briefly acknowledged the part at all events, to help forward the vote of thanks, the proceedings terminat- work of extension aud improvement whore. ed.

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