POPLAR HOSPITAL FOR ACCIDENTS. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "]
SIR,—Not for the last sixteen years have I made a public' appeal for this hospital. But to-day we have to face rather a, serious expenditure and a very dull one. The hospital has- grown so much since the original heating arrangements and. lift were put in and since the inadequate laundry was erected, that it is really necessary now to have a central heating: system, a safer lift, and a laundry that can do the work. We- also want a sterilizing room. These will cost from £7,000 to, £8,000. It sounds a large sum, but the expenditure is necessary and has been very carefully gone into with every desire to economize. I hope I may ask the public to help us. The hospital has a good record. In the last twenty years it has been trebled in size, does three times as much work, treating now six patients for every hour of every day and night, and has never been a single penny in debt.
Mr. Oswald Magniac is going to take the chair at a dinner' to help our funds on December 12th, by which date we very much hope to be in a position to know that we can safely- undertake this unavoidable expenditure. I quite realize that it is rather hopeless to ask the public to help towards an expenditure which will not enable us to take in any more patients; that is why I call this expenditure " dull." But the present state of things must be altered, as we are in serious danger of not being able to do our present work efficiently.— I am, Sir, &c., SYDNEY HOLLAND. East India Dock Road, Poplar, E.
P.S.—Donations should be sent to me at Kneesworth Hall, Royston, Herts.
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