The Terms of Reference tai the Council were as follows:
"That 4 Sub-Committee, to be called 'Gruinsilon subecosrmnitee. Se terased tne Countey at General 'Hospitals' Cor fecconsider sand report to the Health Hogplial and the General Hospitals the suture between the Count ecewaty_ for the rebuilding (Fhaving'in'mind the desire With regard to point (a) of the terms of reference the sub-committee were confronted with a very definite statement of the Board of Governors of the General Hospital that as the two hospitals are so far apart and serve different sections of the community no more useful ce-ordination an be arranged at the present time than "has already been effected. In view of this it was felt that further discussion of the point would be unprofitable. The sub-committee, however, was unwilling to assume that" as regards the future new factors might not arise which could effectively be met by mutual action, and would recommend an arrangement whereby the Boards of Goverors of the two hospitals should hold Members were forced to infer from these Agures that if the two hospitals could agree on a scheme by which some of the services at present provided by both of the hospitals were [confined to one of the hospitals, such agreement might affect considerably the extent to which rebuilding at the General Hospital would be nece sary, and its nature, In view of all the above factors and also from a structural point of view the sub-committee Is" of the opinion that it is not essential at the [present time to rebuild the General Hospital or any part of it. It re~ commends that the repairs mentioned above be proceeded with forthwith, further recommends that a modern [sanitary system be installed in the feast wing at the same time that re-airs are being carried out.
It should be recorded that when the sub-committee was considering the question of rebuilding at the JGeneral Hospital, agreement was, reached between the two hospitals a3:
provision of temporary" aecom-Jmodation at the Country Hospital for patients displaced from the East Wing. fof the General Hospital, In view, however, of the recommendation that immediate rebuilding is not essential, and also because conditions may have changed when the matter next comes up for consideration, details of the agreement arrived at are unnecessary, Rider on Findings (rider on "the SubsCommittee's sldinge one Question (a) of the terns consider that the attitude which the Boards of Governors of the Genral and Country Hospitals respectively have adopted throughout the meetings of the sub-committee reveals 8 disinclination on their part to consider the possibilities of further coordination between the two hospitals, Further, as it is clear that the re: building of the east wing of the General Hospital. is_tikely" to requir® Urgent consideration within the next few years and will, if carried out, involve considerable' expense, T have formed the opinion and recommend that the question of the Counelt's relations with the two hospitals is Jone which should be reviewed in the intervening period,
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