a good deal of bartering of honours very soon, in which case the only hope is that the authorities will ask enough and make the purchasers: pay-
But as it is, the hospitals—only to take one case—are in a very serious position. Some of them, including the London, which is in the poorest part of the Metropolis, are now making every patient pay though this is a short cut tole municipalization of all hospitals. We are steadily moving in that direction Dr. Addison has sanctioned a municipal hospital at Bradford which will be maintained purely out of the rates.
There is no disguising the fact that some ce-ordination of hospitals is needed. Many of the old fashioned, are situated where they are not needed, in view of the ebb and flow of the population, and yet cannot be moved because there is no money to do it. May be we shall have a compromise, very much on the lines of schools which receive an education grant. In that case either the State or the Municipality will give the various hospitals a grant in return for representation on the Managing Committee and a certain number of free beds at the disposal of the very poor. No one can very much object to this, particularly as no one has any alternative scheme.
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