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Contribution from the Insurance Committee.
The Insurance Committee are prepared to enter into an agreement
with the Borough Council for the treatment of Tuberculous
persons in Dispensaries, who are recommended by the Committee
for Sanatorium benefit, and, in consideration thereof, to contribute
a sum towards the cost of maintenance of the Dispensary, subject
to certain conditions, according to the proportion of attendances
made by insured patients to the total number of attendances made
at the Dispensary, together with an agreed sum in respect of other
services rendered to the Committee, not specifically referred to
in their Memorandum of 23rd April, 1914.
Capital Grant.
For making alterations and providing necessary equipment
in connection with the Metropolitan Hospital Dispensary it will be
necessary to make formal application to the Local Government
Board for a capital grant, in accordance with the Board's Circular
Letter of the 7th November, 1913, Section 9, as follows:—
"In cases where it is proposed that a voluntary institution
should be utilised as part of a scheme, and that a capital
grant should be made by the Board towards the cost of extensions
or improvements at the institution, it is necessary that
some security should be obtained for the continued maintenance
of the institution in a manner approved by the Board, or that
provision should be made for repayment of the grant, or of
some portion of the grant, in the event of the authorities of the
institution failing to maintain it to the satisfaction of the Board.
"In these cases it is desirable that an agreement should be
made between the authorities of the institution and the Council
proposing to utilise it as part of their scheme, providing for the
contingent reversion of the institution to the Council, or, in