Annual report : 1937 / Essex County Hospital, Colchester.

  • Essex County Hospital, Colchester.
Date:
1937
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Annual report : 1937 / Essex County Hospital, Colchester. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Report of the Committee for the Year 1937. Having the honour to be Chairman of your Hospital, and also at the same time Honorary Secretary to a Pack of Foxhounds, although very different in their objects, they have two things in common, they both start with the letter H, and both have a difficulty in making two ends meet, but whatever their difficulties ♦ are they both carry on. The Committee note with pleasure the additional income shown from nearly all sources, particularly the increases in the Workers’ and Contributory Funds. Unfortunately the expenditure from unavoidable causes lias also risen, and in addition several heavy items of extraordinary expenditure have had to be defrayed, as shown in the Accounts. Notwithstanding the additional income, the overdraft in 1936 has been repeated in 1937, amounting to £4.9o6. Against this over¬ draft the Committee can, however, set off an amount <»f £6.247, which has been invested from legacies so kindly left towards the work. W hat is the cause of this overdraft 2 1 he two main reasons are keeping our Hospital up to date in every way, and also the four¬ teen extra beds which have come about by the erection <>f the two New Wards. It was a gamble perhaps on the part of the Hospital Committee in increasing the number of beds in the Hospital at the present time, but everyone must know how much they were needed, and the Committee felt that as soon as the Borough and District realised