Report and statement of accounts : 1947 / Swanage Cottage Hospital.

  • Swanage Cottage Hospital.
Date:
1947
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Report and statement of accounts : 1947 / Swanage Cottage Hospital. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    After fifty-eight years or service the Hospital passes to the State on July 5th and the Hospital Committee will cease to exist. Control will pass to a Management Committee located at Bournemouth. It will be unnecessary to make gifts to hospitals for general maintainance as this will be paid for by the State. But just as the State provision for the Fighting Services does not cover all the needs of the men in these services (demonstrated for example by the existence of comforts and benevolent funds) so it is certain that the individual hospital in the Hospital Service will have needs not covered by the State., Parliament, recognising this need, has required the Act to provide that any gift made to a particular hospital after July 5th will go to the benefit of that hospital and no other. With this report you will have received a pamphlet which deals with the matter of “ Personal support for for Hospitals ” in greater detail. Another way in which hospitals can be helped after July 5th is by the formation of a Hospital Association, league of Friends, or other independent body which would have complete control of the funds it raised. The advantage of such a scheme are : (i) The active interest and support of the Hospital’s erstwhile subscribers and other friends can be perpetuated. (ii) It enables them to have their own independent existence after the appointed day and provides a field for the recruitment of fresh supporters. (iii) It provides a body of persons who can assist the new Management Committee by taking an active interest in the hospital’s affairs. (iv) It provides the supporters with a more direct interest than would be possible if they had no choice but to offer their individual gifts direct to the new Hospital Manage¬ ment Committee. (v) At the same time it enables the Teague or Society to select the purposes for which its gifts are to be given to the hospital ; and so encourage friendly consultations and relations between those who support the hospital and those who manage it. My special thanks are due to Major Greene, the energetic and untiring Secretary of the Hospital, for the information contained in this Report. The members of your Committee confidently hope, as they lay down their duties of office, that our Swanage Cottage Hospital under its efficient Matron, will continue to serve our local community as well in the future as it has tried to do in the past. H. V. NICOTT-GRIFFITH, Chairman.