The Sussex Provident Scheme and Its Critics

B?Sir,?In view of tlie fact tliat some doubts have been expressed as to the economic soundness and financial stability of the Sussex Provident Scheme, it may interest some of your readers to hear the results of the first eleven months' working. It was decided to make the first financial year one of eleven months in order that the Associated Hospitals might receive what was owing to them before the last quarter day of the current year. The financial arrangement which was agreed to when the scheme was initiated was that for the first year the income of the scheme should be divided into forty parts and that these should be allotted beforehand to the