Report : 1932 / Middlesex Hospital.

  • Middlesex Hospital
Date:
1932
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Credit: Report : 1932 / Middlesex Hospital. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    were rather disappointing, Donations and Subscriptions increased last year, a very wonderful tribute, I think, to the reputation of the Middlesex. Now I cannot ask all those of you who made that special effort to do the same again this year. Some of you perhaps cam do so, and all of our friends can try to interest others in our work. If those who last year could not, for one reason or another, make a special donation, will do so this year, and those who did, but can do it again, will repeat their generosity, and if all our friends, whether able to give again or not, will bring in new friends, we shall, I am confident, repeat our success of last year. The Middlesex deserves and demands the support of the public for it has never diminished nor diluted the service it renders to the public. Before I give you in detail our report on the maintenance of the Hospital, let me tell you how matters stand with regard to the progress of the Reconstruction Scheme. Towards the end of last year we had to make up our minds whether we would, in view of the grave financial position, husband the balance we still held on the Reconstruction Fund, and postpone work on the final section, or go forward so far as our resources allowed. We decided, and, I am sure you will agree, rightly, that the bolder course was the better from many points of view. We believed that we should obtain favourable terms for so much of the last section as we could put up, and we were largely influenced by the national need for stimulating productive expenditure. So we went forward, and we are happy to think that we have had a share in the increased employment recently reported in the building and allied trades. We have adapted the national slogan, “ Spend for Employment,” and I expect most of you have seen in the Press photographs of the posters outside the Plospital, with their legends, “ Give for Employment,” “ Donations Give Work To-day and Provide for the Needs of the Future.” We sincerely hope that they may appeal to the public, and in promoting the circulation of money carry on also a w’ork of both immediate and future national importance.
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