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A Seasonable Request.
A Seasonable Request .
f , N these days of east-end " settlements" and widespread activity in every lield of charitable work , it is not necessary to descant—especially to Masons—on the poverty of such districts as Bethnal Green , Shoreditch , Homerton , Mackney Wick , & c . To our readers , these place-names will brine ; visions of •' narrow streets of busy thoroujrlifares lined by houses
in . varying stages of decayed respectability , of men and women whose lives are one long struggle for bare existence , and of children—ah yes ! children everywhere' —playing in the streets ( those " mean" streets that somehow seem to elude the sunshine altogether !) fetching father ' s beer , " minding" the baby ,
hanging on to the backs of tlie trams and busses , full of life , full of fun , undamped by dismal surroundings , and full of affection and generous feeling too , dear reader , if only these qualities were not in manv cases stunted and crushed within them bv the
sordid everyday troubles of poverty ! Our readers will doubtless have a general knowledge of all these things , bul the particular branch of charitable work to which we now wish to draw their
attention , will not be so familiar to them . We refer to the work of the Hospital for Children in Hackney Road , Bethnal Green , which has laboured strenuously , unostentatiously , for the past 33 years , in the thickly-populated area wc have indicated .
It is not too much to say that the NORTH EASTERN HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN , as it is called , is the only institution of its special kind for a population of over half a million . It strives and struggles to do its duty by these people with but 57 beds ancl wilh utterly inadequate accommodation for every
branch of its work . Ten accidents a day , 1200 Out-patient attendances in a week , between 700 and iSoo children admitted to the wards in a year : such is the talc of that work , and the Committee can point with pride lo the excellent manner in which it is done , in spite of small rooms and absence of suitable buildings .
No increase has been made in tin * size of the hospital for 20 years . The Committee , however , have always been fully alive to the necessities of the case , and have had before them a comprehensive scheme of enlargement for some years past . Various circumstances—the South African War being the latest—have
led to the repeated postponement ol" the much-needed building operations , and in the meantime Ihe pressure on the : present small accommodation has been felt with ever-increasing aeuteness . Strongly urged fonvard b y local public opinion , the Committee have entered , after exhaustive consideration , upon a
scheme- of enlargement whicli i . s estimated to cost £ 40 , 000 . Towards this sum £ 5500 is already available , and their appeal is now for £ 34 , 500 . Thc building to face Hackney Koad , estimated to cost £ 25 , 000 ( i . e . the part ' of the general scheme which it is proposed to . undertake in thc lirst instance ) ,
must be commenced early next year , or the sum of £ 3000 ( a legacy and a donation conditionally allocated ) will be lost to the Hospital . We might plead urgency for the appeal on this account alone , but we would direct the < - ; aze of our readers to the underl y ing cause of the appeal—the : children of London ' s vast industrial population .
A Seasonable Request.
Look into the despairing face of a tired mother carrying her child from the hospital where no bed can be found in which to nurse its little sickly frame back lo healthfulness—follow her home— "home , " perhaps one room in a narrow street of Bethnal
Green . Her husband is ill or out of work or earning scarce ) y anything . She herself is a wage-earner , and the loss of half-aday is a serious matter to her and to her four or live other children . The sick little one must lie there in the crowded room
amid nameless discomforts until the mother can manage to leave work again and go on her weary pilgrimage to the other hospitals . This is no fancy case , it is typical of the 700 or Soo that are sent away from the iloors of this hospital every year . Here is
urgency indeed ! We do not , however , seek to touch the heart only . We appeal also to the head . Our hospitals are mighty engines of social reform in ovir midst , and their influence for good on our whole social fabric is incalculably great . This is even more emphatically true when applied to hospitals for
children , and we , therefore , the more strongly urge upon our readers the necessity for enlarging the NORTH EASTERN HOSPITAL , SO as to make it more adequate to the work that is required of it . Let the head judge , and then let the heart dictate !
The Bishop of Stepney ( a Vice-President of the Institution ) , Lord Frederick FitzRoy ( the Chairman ) , Mr . J . Lister Godlee ( the Treasurer ) , and Alderman Sir William P . Treloar ( a member
of the Committee ) , have recently signed a letter appealing for the £ 34 , 500 required to carry out the entire scheme , and with such men behind it success should attend the effort now being made to raise this money .
lhe following are amongst the larger donations that have been already received or promised : — £ s . el . £ s . a , MaunVe- KiilTe-r , ! -. s <| . ( to IK ; Corporation of the City ( if yiven on !) - when the- btiilel- London 52 10 u
in- * : is actually comme-v . eel ) 51 x 1 o o C . C . ( conilitional unsulliocnt T . W . P . soo o i ) money for li'i'Min- ** lieinif the Cio ' clsniilhs' Company .. ( HIO ei ei e : o ' , ! eclei ! hy ' . he Jjoth April , . Messrs . Hania ! " Jlros . tiitim lo / 'l ) lOtin o (' K-. ' .. -1 ' . i * of lhe late W ' oolf Lorel Crimthorpe , O . C . ... 100 o 11
Joe' ) ... ... i ... ... . 500 n 11 Mrs . Wi'lot-h- ... . ' 1 o ,,,, „ „ Prince- of Wales' Hospital The Bishop of I . oneliii-, from l- ' unil ( in addition loan lhe Marriott Hcipiest ( cim-. \ nniialSiil ] scri | i : ioiiof ^ . ' , ioo ) J , D o o ilitional on liuildin-r hc-itiji Rt . 1 lon . Cecil J . Kliinles ... 5 _> u , i > commenced liy . April , 10 , 01 ) jooo ri 0
We are glad to see that the Prince of Wales' Hospital Fund has set the seal of its approval on this important scheme of hospital development . The war has exhausted many purses for the present , but it
has enriched some others , and we do not see why the Committee of the NORTH EASTERN HOSPITAL should have any fear of getting all the money they want within a reasonable time . We wish them luck in their good work , and we strongly commend their appeal to the generous consideration of all good Masons .
Il only remains to he saiel that cheques should he crossed Barclay & Cei ., Limited , and should be sent lo the : Secretary Mr . T . Glenton-Kerr , at the City Oflice , 27 , Clements Lane . E . C ,
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A Seasonable Request.
A Seasonable Request .
f , N these days of east-end " settlements" and widespread activity in every lield of charitable work , it is not necessary to descant—especially to Masons—on the poverty of such districts as Bethnal Green , Shoreditch , Homerton , Mackney Wick , & c . To our readers , these place-names will brine ; visions of •' narrow streets of busy thoroujrlifares lined by houses
in . varying stages of decayed respectability , of men and women whose lives are one long struggle for bare existence , and of children—ah yes ! children everywhere' —playing in the streets ( those " mean" streets that somehow seem to elude the sunshine altogether !) fetching father ' s beer , " minding" the baby ,
hanging on to the backs of tlie trams and busses , full of life , full of fun , undamped by dismal surroundings , and full of affection and generous feeling too , dear reader , if only these qualities were not in manv cases stunted and crushed within them bv the
sordid everyday troubles of poverty ! Our readers will doubtless have a general knowledge of all these things , bul the particular branch of charitable work to which we now wish to draw their
attention , will not be so familiar to them . We refer to the work of the Hospital for Children in Hackney Road , Bethnal Green , which has laboured strenuously , unostentatiously , for the past 33 years , in the thickly-populated area wc have indicated .
It is not too much to say that the NORTH EASTERN HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN , as it is called , is the only institution of its special kind for a population of over half a million . It strives and struggles to do its duty by these people with but 57 beds ancl wilh utterly inadequate accommodation for every
branch of its work . Ten accidents a day , 1200 Out-patient attendances in a week , between 700 and iSoo children admitted to the wards in a year : such is the talc of that work , and the Committee can point with pride lo the excellent manner in which it is done , in spite of small rooms and absence of suitable buildings .
No increase has been made in tin * size of the hospital for 20 years . The Committee , however , have always been fully alive to the necessities of the case , and have had before them a comprehensive scheme of enlargement for some years past . Various circumstances—the South African War being the latest—have
led to the repeated postponement ol" the much-needed building operations , and in the meantime Ihe pressure on the : present small accommodation has been felt with ever-increasing aeuteness . Strongly urged fonvard b y local public opinion , the Committee have entered , after exhaustive consideration , upon a
scheme- of enlargement whicli i . s estimated to cost £ 40 , 000 . Towards this sum £ 5500 is already available , and their appeal is now for £ 34 , 500 . Thc building to face Hackney Koad , estimated to cost £ 25 , 000 ( i . e . the part ' of the general scheme which it is proposed to . undertake in thc lirst instance ) ,
must be commenced early next year , or the sum of £ 3000 ( a legacy and a donation conditionally allocated ) will be lost to the Hospital . We might plead urgency for the appeal on this account alone , but we would direct the < - ; aze of our readers to the underl y ing cause of the appeal—the : children of London ' s vast industrial population .
A Seasonable Request.
Look into the despairing face of a tired mother carrying her child from the hospital where no bed can be found in which to nurse its little sickly frame back lo healthfulness—follow her home— "home , " perhaps one room in a narrow street of Bethnal
Green . Her husband is ill or out of work or earning scarce ) y anything . She herself is a wage-earner , and the loss of half-aday is a serious matter to her and to her four or live other children . The sick little one must lie there in the crowded room
amid nameless discomforts until the mother can manage to leave work again and go on her weary pilgrimage to the other hospitals . This is no fancy case , it is typical of the 700 or Soo that are sent away from the iloors of this hospital every year . Here is
urgency indeed ! We do not , however , seek to touch the heart only . We appeal also to the head . Our hospitals are mighty engines of social reform in ovir midst , and their influence for good on our whole social fabric is incalculably great . This is even more emphatically true when applied to hospitals for
children , and we , therefore , the more strongly urge upon our readers the necessity for enlarging the NORTH EASTERN HOSPITAL , SO as to make it more adequate to the work that is required of it . Let the head judge , and then let the heart dictate !
The Bishop of Stepney ( a Vice-President of the Institution ) , Lord Frederick FitzRoy ( the Chairman ) , Mr . J . Lister Godlee ( the Treasurer ) , and Alderman Sir William P . Treloar ( a member
of the Committee ) , have recently signed a letter appealing for the £ 34 , 500 required to carry out the entire scheme , and with such men behind it success should attend the effort now being made to raise this money .
lhe following are amongst the larger donations that have been already received or promised : — £ s . el . £ s . a , MaunVe- KiilTe-r , ! -. s <| . ( to IK ; Corporation of the City ( if yiven on !) - when the- btiilel- London 52 10 u
in- * : is actually comme-v . eel ) 51 x 1 o o C . C . ( conilitional unsulliocnt T . W . P . soo o i ) money for li'i'Min- ** lieinif the Cio ' clsniilhs' Company .. ( HIO ei ei e : o ' , ! eclei ! hy ' . he Jjoth April , . Messrs . Hania ! " Jlros . tiitim lo / 'l ) lOtin o (' K-. ' .. -1 ' . i * of lhe late W ' oolf Lorel Crimthorpe , O . C . ... 100 o 11
Joe' ) ... ... i ... ... . 500 n 11 Mrs . Wi'lot-h- ... . ' 1 o ,,,, „ „ Prince- of Wales' Hospital The Bishop of I . oneliii-, from l- ' unil ( in addition loan lhe Marriott Hcipiest ( cim-. \ nniialSiil ] scri | i : ioiiof ^ . ' , ioo ) J , D o o ilitional on liuildin-r hc-itiji Rt . 1 lon . Cecil J . Kliinles ... 5 _> u , i > commenced liy . April , 10 , 01 ) jooo ri 0
We are glad to see that the Prince of Wales' Hospital Fund has set the seal of its approval on this important scheme of hospital development . The war has exhausted many purses for the present , but it
has enriched some others , and we do not see why the Committee of the NORTH EASTERN HOSPITAL should have any fear of getting all the money they want within a reasonable time . We wish them luck in their good work , and we strongly commend their appeal to the generous consideration of all good Masons .
Il only remains to he saiel that cheques should he crossed Barclay & Cei ., Limited , and should be sent lo the : Secretary Mr . T . Glenton-Kerr , at the City Oflice , 27 , Clements Lane . E . C ,