This sketch gives you a picture of our incomings. Our outgoings do not radically vary from year to year. The Board does no new things. Rent, food, medical aid, board and lodging, passages, school fees, funeral expenses and hospital visiting cover our activities that cost money.
We spend over $2,300 a month of which over $1,600 go on rents, food, school fees. We subscribe to St.
Joseph's Convent for they are always generous in helping us when we need medical aid, boarding expenses and boarding school facilities for girls. We made a gift to the Y.MC.A. as usual to help them to finance their summer camp and we have added to the exiguous sum hitherto allowed to our hospital visitors.
"We were afraid that the War in Europe might cause a diversion of funds from the British poor of Shanghai to war funds at home, but this fear has been proved unfounded. Large hearted Shanghai has subscribed to generously. Our pensioners have not markedly increased and they still need the same things.
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