PHILANTHROPY.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 954, 22 October 1910, Page 9

PHILANTHROPY.

v .TO PREVENT . ■ lii : the course of anumber of- sugges'-. ■tions_' thrown. 'out Jto arid Charitable Aid Boards for consideration during the present year,;': the. InspectorGeneral- of .; Hospitals,; Dr. : Valintine, urge's.- cooperation "between public; qnd. private, philanthropy.;.-It should'be the aim of all boards to;;; co-operate' '■' with' private' societies,' with a" view";to.' ; prer ■vent'- the overlapping -that is now;going on, .says; Dr.; Valiutine.v A .great'. dealcould be done/in this-direction if .those concerned' 'would but approach';-the. matter, in an-'impartialspirit and -waive all local or. sectariari-wprejudices;?:''' A; iramber-•; of."{,.private ;':,pliilantfcropic societies, are .'doing/-good 'work,ai. 1 - thecountry, but, ; as they are', not .inaiouch 'with each , other—indeed, 'S6me!:~ are working in open: antagohism-rher with the ihospital boards,.,many .undeserving persons are receiving relief which'wbuld not' be given'if there; were some .system .of .organisation. 1 It -would be;'; quite proper for the,boards to' give pecuniary: assistance to - those; : private .. societies; which; are doing; good l work that would; otherwise have, to be undertaken by; thb : -boards, and.';by: • giving];; such ".'assistance the ■ Government-;••. subsidies ;. would 'be given' automatically.- -The -boards.: could allow .such societies thus' subsidised ;to. manage 'their, own affairs, either, as' cooperative members of :committees .that, boards.are ehtitled.,to set' up, or,': altogether free' of the.boards,...provided , -the .'latter, were! made-aware,'as to' : the' exact; ground each- society wasj.coyerr. ing, so .■•■ that executive .officers;: could' -work-in unison. ' It is hoped; that the ensuing' year will : see some;:- dogged, efforts made: in this .direction.;,'.