HOSPITAL GETS £20,000.
AMERICAN’S THANKOFFERING FOR WIFE’S LIFE. ROMANTIC STORY. Through a romantic series of circumstances a sum of £20,000 is coming to the London Hospital. It is the thankoffering of a wealthy American. It began with a grave surgical operation, involving the transfusion of a pint of blood for which a volunteer was chosen from a number on the hospital register. Mr. E. W. Morris, house governor at the hospital, explained the affair. While the American and his wife 1 were staying at the Ritz last autumn the lady became ill, and surgeons connected with the hospital agreed that an operation was imperative. Word was sent to the clinical laboratory for a volunteer for blood transfusion, and .|his operation was effected at a West End nursing home, some hours the case was critical, but the patient happily recovered. In his gratitude her husband suggested a thankoffering, and he immediately acted upon the idea that this should help the development of research at the hospital in the treatment and prevention of certain cases, so that the poorest might benefit equally with the rich. Not only did he put down £5OOO, but he expressed his readiness to add another £5OOO if £lO,000 could be secured from other sources by the end of the year. This was the task, therefore, brought before Mr. Morris in October. He was advised that it was useless immediately to make a public appeal. In December the question came before the Health Ministry, and Lord Knutsford, chairman of the hospital, with Mr. Morris, had an interview with the Earl of Onslow, chairman of the Voluntary Hospitals Commission. This body has* been entrusted with the distribution of £500,000, and is acßhg on a £ for £ basis. Formal application brought the hospital a grant of £lO,OOO on the last day of the year. A cable to the American visitor, who had returned home, brought this reply by wireless: “Splendid. Will send the remaining £5OOO with pleasure. Advise me particulars.” As the result of the £20.000 gift, 200 hospital beds which were closed some time ago are to be re-opened. They will provide accommodation for an additional 4000 patients in a year.
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Taranaki Daily News, 22 April 1922, Page 12
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361HOSPITAL GETS £20,000. Taranaki Daily News, 22 April 1922, Page 12
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