[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR]
Snt,—May I beg the freedom of your columns to correct the impression which may have been conveyed to your readers by Mr. George Lansbury's necessarily compressed version of the financial situation of the East London Hospital for Children as given in my address to the Court of Governors ?
Friends have congratulated me on the reduction of an overdraft of £14,000 to so small a figure as £930. The true position is that the total indebtedness of the hospital to its bankers was increased in 1931 by £930, being the excess of expenditure over income, and that total indebtedness is to-day well over £10,000 and likely to increase. Truly a crushing burden upon a small institution hidden in a slum from the eyes and knowledge of the charitable public.—I am,
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