'A hundred years ago Westminster Hospital, facing the Abbey, was in a fairly open part, but if its founders had only been able to give it a frontage to St. James's Park nearby would have been in an admirable tions on the subject of the war proposition to face the centuries. The geision to remove from the present. site, surrounded as it is by other buildings, with only expensive opportunities for expansion, was taken some. time ago, but It is only now that the Board of Governors are able to announce th proposed new site behind 'Thames 'House near the river. 'The sum fof £100,000 had been raised" in the stipulated' time for' the the site and. the fovernars' were now. authori: ing a loan of £220,000 for the build-me. "the toa cent toe new heal trid site will be about £1500, The site shouts fetch a aubstantat Sur, ana' the hospital hopes to raise £350,000 by subscription. The new sulting, wit be 8 region recent.
cleared of small two-storey houses stables and-amall works, and in the. middle of st is a large' able pace formerly a graveyard. Thames House stands between it and' the Fiver. Naturally there ig. some fear That in its outotsthe-way" position the hospital may be out of tind fame posite donors. Tt is that fear that St" Georges Hoopla ell stays fu in ite cramped island ite "at "Hoopta sti stays Hyde Parke "Corner. Many "times there have been reports that "the governors were" considering ofers for the nite or examining attractive sites in 'Outer: London, 'Bute. far athing has been' decided. "Many Persons, concerned in hospital affairs have often wondered why these two rear hostile have not combined estabiisved with "taels united Fesourees and experience' on' the Feaithiest part of" London united hospital that woud be' the finest of {sina im the. world, The. deisont the. Westminster Hospital" gove mors {0 goon with. their own Scheme puts an end, of corse, that hope
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