Die medizinische Fakultät der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg im Breisgau: Grundlagen und Entwicklungen

treated more fully. Curiously, there is no table of the flow of donations and income, or of the structure of expenditure, so that the crucial role of the Fund as a distributor of grants is not easily grasped. It is not always clear why decisions were reached, and whether they were sensible. It is intriguing to learn, without elaboration, that the new consultant on hospital finance appointed in 1939 concluded that the Fund had "been imposing the wrong system for a generation". Perhaps Bevan was, after all, justified in distrusting an organization whose College aimed to turn administrators into gentlemen who could meet consultants on equal terms.