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This plan offers the following advantages : — All the money 

 •would be expended in the erection of new substantial buildings of 

 modern arrangement, and on good sites. The management would 

 be central, there would be no rivalry, and thus it would be easy 

 to render one officer responsible that no really necessitous person 

 whose disease required hospital treatment was refused, and that 

 all who could afford to pay should, if admitted, be compelled to 

 do so in proportion to their means. 



The accommodation would be capable of systematic and economi- 

 cal increase from time to time, and would be of the kind most 

 favourable for the students of a medical school. 



It would thus, and only thus, be possible to erect a noble and 

 complete hospital, in which the patients could be properly classi- 

 fied, and of which the metropolis could be proud. 



The receiving hospital would occupy its correct position as a 

 branch institution under the same management. 



The following is an approximate estimate of the original cost : — 



SCHEME C. 



Beds. Cr. Dr. 

 Prince Alfred Hospital administrative block and 



pavilions complete for 200 £61,000 



Eeceiving Hospital complete for ... ... ... 30 9,000 



Including Talue of site ... ... ... 5,000 



Amount of Prince Alfred Hospital Fund £24,000 



Value of land in Macquarie-street — Infirmary site ... 36,000 



Value of Infirmary buildings ... ... 13,780 



£73,780 £75,000 

 St. Vincent's Hospital 60 



Total beds 290 



Balance required from Government, for -wbich value 



is not received ... ... ... ... ... 1,220 



£75,000 



N.B. — The estimate of tbe value of the Infirmary site has been most kindly 

 furnished to me by Messrs. Richardson and Wrench. The estimate of the 

 buildings is taken at the original cost of the Nightingale Wing and South 

 Wing only. 



This paper has already far exceeded the limits to which I had 

 originally designed it, and it will be impossible for me to deal with 

 the important questions of organization and support. 



I will, however, close my remarks by enumerating some of the 

 points which occur to me as requiring full consideration and 

 prompt decision. 



1. Whether our hospitals should not be open to every sick per- 

 son in necessitous circumstances, subject only to the fitness of his 

 case for treatment ? 



B 



