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Facing Deficit of £88,000

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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 gifta side.

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Frankfort, N. Y, Three deer were reported plucidly grazing with cattle in Frank W. Hausner's pasture while just a few

miles to the north deer hunters' shots were safe, however, because Frank- |echoed through the woods. The deer fort is on the south bank of the

Mohawk river, and deer hunting is prohibited south of the river.

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There are prosperous hospitals along them which show a steady surplus; but the aggregate receipts in 1936 for all of them showed a deficit of £64,000. There were 86 hospitals with sur-Greybull answered an alon by pluses, 59 with deficits.

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 £88,000 defleit overweighed | the fact that the number of hospitals which had returned à surplus for the your was actually greater.

Even so, the inconie 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 11 total

Keneral fund Income of £4,100,000, the same as in 1935. But expenditure rose from £4,075,000 (in 1935) to £4,260,000 last year.

WHERE MONEY GOES

Greybull, Wyo. The volunteer fire department of

rushing to their fire house to get thele engines, but the blaze destroyed a residence before they arrived. Some- and siphoned all the gasoline out of body had broken into the fire hafl

the fire engine tanks.

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 and was suspend- ed by a vote of 178 to 104.

More beds (there are now 18,100) Mr. Kirkwood, whose eyes were therefore liable to suspension. and new trentiment for patients have molit with tears at the death of Mr. Kirkwood sat for a few been costing larger sums. The four Mr. MacDonald, his close friend, moments, then rose and walked out, principal items in the Joint hospitals; muttered and mumbled when a which is the technicat acceptance of bill were:

Ministerial reply to a question did the Speaker's order to withdraw. not sult him.

Salaries and wages £1,035,000 Domestic

£699,000 £612,000

Provisions Surgery and dispensary £527,000

Captain FilzRoy, the Speaker, rose) and said: "If Mr. Kirkwood cannot behave himself I shall have to ask him to leave the House."

Mr. Kirkwood: "I don't give u

During the year the average num- ber of beds occupied (15,100) In- creased by 100. There were 280,200 damn." new in-patients (6,100 more), and The Speaker asked him to with-

draw, 1,041,000 ut-patients (increase of 60,000).

Out-patients attended the hospitals 10,005,000 times, against 9,811,000 in 1035.

Mr. Kirkwood: "I will not with- draw,

The Speaker: "I shall have to name Mr. Kirkwood"-.e., name him as disobedient to the Chair, and

But as he reached the line be tween the public debating cham- ber and the private areas of the Farflament buildings he whipped round and exclaimed to the Speaker: "Don't lecture me. Uo you think you are going to get treating me like a boy? That is what you would like to do. I don't give a damn.”

Mr. Noville Chamberlain, sitting ready to deliver his personal tribute to his former chief, had no alterna- tive but to move the suspension of. Mr. Kirkwood,

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