THE - ROYAL NORTHERN HOSPITAL [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
youallow me to bring to the notice of your readers an appeal which is being made for a new X-ray Department for the Royal Northern Hospital ? Not only is the space in the present department insufficient for the number of cases passing through it, but its lack of space has for some time been condemned as positively dangerous to the health of the staff handling the apparatus. 'rue urgent necessity for its reconstruction has been recognized by King Edward's Hospital Fund, which has made a special grant towards it.
The sum of 16,000 is required, towards which 11,900 has already been received. It is impossible for the Hospital to meet any part of this expenditure out of its general funds. The cost of its maintenance is annually £85,000, of which less than 5% is insured by endowment. It is the only General Hospital in a very large area of North London, and one of the largest in the Metropolis, but it appears to be unable to subsist on the generosity of that area. I hope, therefore, that this appeal to the wide circle of your readers will meet with a prompt and generous response ; and that the Board of the Hospital may soon no longer have to ask the medical and nursing staff to run the serious risk that they are doing hourly and daily at present.
Donations, marked "X-ray Fund," should be sent to me at the Royal Northern Hospital, Holloway Road, N. 7.—I am, Sir, &C., NORTHAMPTON,
Chairman, Royal Northern Group of Hospitals. Royal Northern Hospital, Holloway, London, N.7.
[Lord Northampton has certainly not overstated his MM. The Royal Northern Hospital, which will be seventy years of
age this year, is the only General Hospital in an area of seventy square miles. It serves a population of a million. In one year it has had as many as 218;600 out-patients. Ordinary revenue cannot be diverted to the X-ray Fund, but it is not to be thought of that the gallant staff should be exposed to unnecessary danger. The heroism Of X-ray workers is familiar to every newspaper-reader: Let it not be said that unnecessary risks are added to those which are inevitable. —En. Spectator.]
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