28 MARCH 1908, Page 27

Burdett's Hospitals and Charities, 1908. By Sir Henry Burdett. (Scientific

Press. 7s. 6d. net.)—The editor tells us in his preface a fact which cannot be too widely known. The annual contribu- tions of the public to hospitals and charities generally are suffi- cient to supply their needs. This does not ensure that each institution has all that it wants and may legitimately ask for. The London Hospital, for instance, was £30,000 short in 1905, though the revenue available for the whole number of one hundred and five London hospitals exceeded their expenditure by £91,000. The moral is obvious. Let the giver assure himself that his gift is properly laid out.