Third report of the Royal Commissioners appointed to inquire into the endowed schools and hospitals (Scotland) : with appendix in two volumes / [chairman, Sir Edward Colebrooke].

  • Scotland. Endowed Schools Commission.
Date:
1875
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    and of examiners, show this. Dr. Ogilvie says : ' The progress now made, compared with what it was, is very marked.' Again: ' The foundationers, in the first session [after the change of sys- tem], were very troublesome; but during the second session (the older boys having left) there was a marked improvement in every way.' 'They (the elder boys) were so far behind, that really there seemed little hope of making anything of them.' Of the younger foundationers he says: ' They are giving us great satis- faction on the whole, and doing very well. I am satisfied the change has done an immense deal of good to the foundationers.' Ooniirmation Were further evidence needed as to the necessity and desire for themovemeifs Hospital reform in Scotland, it would be found in the fact already Ho*sitaf Trus ^^^^> ^^fore the issue of our commission, almost all the tees with a Hospitals of any importance either applied, or had resolved to apply, view to reform, f^j. Provisional Orders under the Endowed Institutions (Scotland) Act, 1869,—namely, the Merchant Company's Hospitals, Heriot's, the Trades' Maiden, the Orphan's, and Schaw's. In Elgin, a majority of only one prevented action being taken. In Aberdeen, steps were taken by the Governors of Gordon's Hospital to alter its character; but their petition, after being prepared, was not presented to the Home Secretary, because it had been already found that the Endowed Institutions (Scotland) Act did not give the requisite powers.* In Stiell's Hospital, East Lothian, the Trustees carried out reforms of a beneficial tendency, which they believed they had powers to do under the Trust. These reforms were the better organization of the Higher department of the Hospital, throwing it open as a Public School, the boarding out of the residents, and the institution of bursaries. The reforms contemplated by the Governors of the other foundations referred to above had similar objects in view. In the most recent bequest of all, the 'Spier Trust,' we have evidence that the Trustees themselves desire powers to restrict the purely Hospital character of the Foundation.-f- Cost of Fos- 2. Cost of the Hospital System.—The cost of the Hospital system pitai system, ^^^^g^ engaged our attention. If the cost prior to the reforms insti- tuted by the Merchant Company were taken, the average would be considerably raised. The expenditure on Eettes College, which, as its title indicates, is a Public School, and which was organized from the beginning on such a plan as to avoid the objections taken to the Hospital system, is also omitted from our calculation. Stiell's Hospital, Muirhead's Hospital, and Douglas' Academy have to be ex- cluded for similar reasons, and that proportion of the Heriot revenue which is not devoted to Hospital purposes. Spier's Hospital is also excluded, as it is not yet in operation. Accordingly £34,610 has Evidence, 4895 et seq. t lb., 8978 et seq.