Next Sunday, June 27th, will be the fiftieth Hospital Sunday
in London. It was inaugurated at the Mansion House in 1872, and the Hospital Sunday Fund has distributed to London hospitals more than £3,000,000. The cost of collection and administration has been under 4 per cent.—a really noble testimony to efficiency and voluntary labour. Every Englishman must feel proud of the way in which hospitals arc supported voluntarily. The leanness of the years in which we have been living recently has often made us feel that the old system could not possibly go on, that penury must conquer generosity. Yet next Sunday, we feel confident, will prove once more that the public can come miraculously up to the scratch and show that whatever else it means to save upon it will not save upon the hospitals. This is wise as well as generous policy, because the work of the hospitals is preventive as well as curative. Those who do not contribute in church can send donations to the Lord Mayor at the Mansion House.
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