The Combined Appeal for London Hospitals

of their medical efficiency and soundness of administration, the voluntary hospitals in this country had been brought to the brink of ruin by circumstances quite beyond their own control. Beds had been closed, important branches of healing discontinued, and many schemes of development abandoned. By a great and exceptional effort of public benevolence made now, the vitality of this cherished national organisation would resume its normal state, and the healthy activity of an overstrained system would be restored to the splendour of its former purpose. Sir Alan G-. Anderson, chairman of the Organising Committee, said that ?500,000 was a small figure if balanced against the immense sum that the nation