Annual report : 1902 / St. Mary's Hospital.

Mayo Clinic Hospital — Rochester

Date:: 1902

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Credit: Annual report : 1902 / St. Mary's Hospital. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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i7 Essential as it is to ensure a high standard of efficiency, no friend of the Hospital would wish it to be done by such means, especially in view of the small amount of investments of which the Hospital stands possessed. Among the General Hospitals of London, in the matter of invested Capital, St. Mary’s is very badly off indeed, deriving an income therefrom, divided over the number of its beds, equal to £8 only, while the average (exclud. ing the three endowed Hospitals) is about /20 per bed, and in one the figure is as high as £50. It is therefore but too clear that for St. Mary’s to have to realise capital would be a very serious necessity indeed. The Board have said that the introduction of electric light alone will cost about ,£2,500, and the other improvements to which reference has been made will cost at least as much more. To the residents of such a well-to-do district as that served by the Hocpital, however, the provision of such a sum is a light task, and the Board earnestly appeal to them for help. Signed on behalf of the Board of Management. THOMAS RYAN, Secretary. 12th March, 1903.