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[/OGHT] the hospital. Moreover Brig.-Gen. Seely is defraying the greater portion of the expenses in connection with the maintenance of the Convalescent Home. This home is already occupied by officers, under the care of Mrs. Marindin, who has undertaken the duties of Lady Superintendent. Since the opening of the hospital 99 officers have been treated, as follows :-^Surgical cases, 14; medical cases, 40; ophthalmic cases, 11; dental cases, 34. In addition the medical staff have voluntarily seen at their own con sulting rooms 103 officers, whilst at Netley House, prior to October 25th last, 30 officers received treatment. It is quite obvious that without the financial help which is now sought the Hospital and Convalescent Home cannot be maintained in a state of efficiency. By way of a start, substantial help, however, has now been arranged through Major-General Sir David Henderson in the form of a contribution of ^1,000 per annum from the Royal Flying Corps, this contri bution going towards the maintenance of the Hospital and the Convalescent Home jointly. The first quarterly payment of this subscription was received only on January 13th last. Prior to this subscription being completed the accounts were made up to January nth, and audited, as honorary auditors, by the well-known firm of accountants, Messrs. Cole, Dickin, and Hills, of Sardinia House, Kingsway, the same firm undertaking to periodically audit the accounts in the future. Since the date of the audit the expenses have con siderably increased, as at first only the barest surgical and medical equipment were purchased. Lately a larger staff has been required owing to severe cases needing individual nursing, and further purchases of surgical and medical necesssaries which were urgently required. As nothing can be more convincing as to the voluntary nature of the whole undertaking than the statement of receipts and payments for the period in question, we give the summarised details of the payments for the entire period from the inception of the hospital until January nth last, showing how the whole total of ^867 105. has been dealt with by those responsible for its disburse ment .-— Payments. £ s. d. Netley House Nursing Home expenses ... ... 103 10 8 Quarterly rent, Dorset Square ... 81 18 o Provisions :—Meat, fish, poultry, butter, cheese, milk, bread, grocery, vegetables, &c 124 2 o Surgery and Dispensary:—Drugs, chemicals, &c, £28 4J. 2d.; surgical equipment, ^33 is. gd.; instrument appliances, £i> 6s.; wines, £6 fs. id. 74 o 6 Domestic :—Hardware sundries and cutlery, £13 151. id. ; crockery, £g 7s. 2d. ; coals, £21 10.?. ; laundry, £17 17.1. gd. ; linen, £3J li- 7d- i blankets, beds, and bedding, £29 igs. tid. ; linoleum, £14 os. lid. ; lamps, bells, electric light repairs, £13 is. id. ... 152 13 6 Salaries and wages:—Nurses' salaries, ,£27 iar. 8d.; servants' wages, £30 14^. gd 58 5 5 Establishment charges :—Postage and stationery, £5 SJ. 2d. ; travelling, carriage, telephone, and sundries, £13 igs. $d. 19 7 7 Cash at bank ^250 3 o Cash in hand 3 9 4 253 12 4 867 10 o There are now eight beds, and though the present income is sufficient for the present needs, a much larger sum will be needed for the decorating, furnishing, and upkeep of the proposed larger hospital holding 15 or 16 beds which are even now badly needed. We with the utmost confidence therefore now most FEBRUARY 17, 1916. earnestly appeal to every reader of "FLIGHT" to help towards this vary excellent institution by sending sub scriptions to the Secretary of the hospital at 37, Dorset Square, and we would say that every subscription, how ever large or however small, will be welcome, and will be duly acknowledged by the Committee direct and through the press. By way of a commencement, since the audit the following donations have been received :—Colonel Had- cock, £5 > Miss V. Barkworth (additional), £5 ; J. E. Barkworth (additional) £5; Captain and Mrs. Smith- Barry, ^52 10s.; J. A. Moxey, £50; Cosmo Bonsor, £5 j Colonel Mackinness, ,£25 ; Captain Bannatyne, ^20 ; Colonel Paynter, £5 ; Major Warner, £5 ; Mrs. Warner, £^; Mrs. Chatterton, £1 ; W. J. Wilson, £2 2S.; Capt. Berridge, £2 2s. ; Miss McCleod Fraser, £$> ® ® ® ® FLYING AT HEMDON. THERE is very little to report on the flying at Hendon for the last week-end, for although the weather was fine, on Saturday at any rate, the work that took place was little out of the ordinary and not nearly so interesting as it has been of late. The usual pilots were to be seen flying the usual machines as usual, but for some reason or the other none of them appeared to be over-energetic. J. H. Moore made three flights on his 50-55 h.p. biplane, at one time taking a lady passenger. R. Kenworthy put up some stunts on the 50 h.p. Beatty-Wright biplane, and W. Roche-Kelly followed his example shortly after. As far as I could see all the G.-W. pilots were at work, but it being somewhat muddy under foot I did not venture as far as their end of the aerodrome to ascertain. Sundry school machines, mostly of the Caudron type, were to be seen rolling and hopping across the aerodrome, whilst one gave a very good impersonation of one of the pylons by standing on its nose after trying to fly hori zontally, vertically. Several service machines also went up, consisting of B.E 2C's, Burgess pushers, Curtiss, De Havilland two-seater pusher, and, I think, a Thomas tractor. On Sunday Claude Grahame-White, for a man who had been nearly done to death in France, was looking particularly fit about the time he was being so generously " laid out" by the usual rumorist. These gentry have in Claudie a tough customer to get rid of. @ ® ® ® . The "L19" and a Reunion. ONE result of the publicity accorded to skipper Martin of the trawler which found the wrecked Zeppelin " L 19" was that he discovered his sister, living at Birmingham, whom he had not seen or heard of for nineteen years. German Seaplanes over Danish Capital. ANOTHER instance of Germany's disregard of neutrality is instanced by the Times correspondent at Copenhagen. Writing on February 13th, he says :— " Although German naval airmen stationed in the Sound have, it is understood, orders not to fly over neutral territory, a German seaplane yesterday, the weather being suitable for observation, flew over Copenhagen at a height of 3,000 ft., following from Amager the line of the inner forts. A Danish officer immediately went up in a swift monoplane, and the German turned eastwards over the Sound. The German afterwards returned, flying from north to south over the city, passing the outer forts, and finally turned towards Koge- Bugt. " The Danish Minister in Berlin has been instructed to lodge a protest. Representations have also been made in Berlin respecting the cancelling of contracts for the delivery of iron goods at the old prices. The prospects of redress are small." 142
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