The Vindication of Voluntaryism
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land, and Sir Arthur Stanley is, if anything, unduly modest when he says that its figures " prove that the voluntary system is holding its own." It is, indeed} doing much more than that. Not only did the combined income of these 705 hospitals reach the splendid total of ?7,689,000, but it showed a surplus of ?213,000 of ordinary income over ordinary expenditure. The improvement, as compared with the immediate past, is thrown into high relief by the figures of the two previous years. In 1921 the ordinary expenditure of the hospitals exceeded their ordinary income by ?419,000, and in 1922 the
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