A Great London Charity Crippled.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 193, 5 March 1887, Page 5 (Supplement)

A Great London Charity Crippled.

Peiihaps the worat sign of the agricultural depression jet recorded ia that Guy's Hoa« pital in asking the public for subcriptione. *' Guy's " has hitkerto been a very proud hospital, and has kept house magnificently in the interest of the suffering poor on an income of over £41,000 a year, derived from estates in hand But the annual yield of these estates h»3 been diminishing steadily since 1870 uncil, at the present time of asking, it has oome eo low as £2G 000, with. every prospect of further decrtape. This means immen-e and far-reaching suffering, for with tho fall in income at the hospital there irf, of course, a decreoS3 in the number of bed* The total of 650 beds of the old prosperous times has been reduced ta 500 and then to 400, and it is btlieved that the worst has yet to come. At one time when money meant money and land was land, Guy's lived in great charitable sta'eon its fortuaoof £22 »,000 from Alderman tiuy and £180,000 added by William Hunt a ceatury later to make the round £400,000, and never asked the public for a peony. Tha money waa laid out in estates in Herefordshire, Lincolnshire and Eesex, and the proceeds of it have given the poor of tho south, and the southeast of London a harbour of refuge in sickness and in accident for 160 years. Now Herefordshire., Lincolnshire and Essex have, in a manner, turned traitor tot this noble cause. Their rentals are afflictedwith a falling sickness which all the skill oi Guy's cannot cure. — ''London News."

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