HOSPITAL SUNDAY [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Smn,—Sunday, June
18th, is Hospital Sunday, the annual opportunity for the citizens of London and Greater London to give, of their charity, financial aid to the Voluntary Hospitals of -London through the medium of the Metropolitan Hospital Sfinday Fund. It 'is an occasion of which no more than a reminder should be necessary to make every one give gene- rously. An Annual Donation from every person ,in Greater London of one day's income (not the old tenth, but only one three-hundred-and-sixty-fifth part of what he or she receives in a year) would not only render the Hospitals free from fman- cial embarrassment, but would relieve them of that far greater burden—the knowledge that there is still a vast amount of sickness and suffering with which, for lack of means, they are unable to deal.
The Metropolitan Hospital Sunday Fund is the oldest of the general funds in aid of the hospitals, and since 245 institutions for the relief and healing of sickness participate in it, there can be few charities to which a donation is more beneficent and far-reaching in its effect. I appeal particularly to motorists and to those who, by leaving London at the week-end, seek relaxation from the strain of professional and business life to mark their carefree absence from Town by sending a donation to this great charity.
The hospitals have responded nobly to the extra calls made upon them by the enormous increase in the traffic on our roads during the last few years, and it will be hard indeed if the very circumstance which has thus added to the Hospitals' burden of work should, at the same time, diminish their in- come. Users of our roads will, therefore, I am sure, not miss this opportunity of showing their appreciation of the hospitals whose assistance some of their numbers are fated to use daily, often by no fault of their own. I therefore urge all those who for any reason will be away from London on Sunday, June 18th, to send beforehand a donation to their usual place of worship, or to me, addressed," The Metropolitan Hospital Sunday Fund, The Mansion House, E.C. 4."—I am, Sir, &o., P. GREENAWAY, Lord Mayor, President and Treasurer Hospital Sunday Fund.
. The Mansion, House, London, E.C. 4.
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