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31. The question of finance is of much importance,
and it may be convenient to state at this stage that the
expenditure of the Council on an approved dispensary
scheme will he defrayed as follows:—
(а) £250 or thereabouts by the London Insurance
Committee,
(b) 50 per cent. of balance by the Local Government
Board,
(c) 25 per cent. of balance by the London County
Council,
(d) 25 per cent. of such balance out of the General
Bate of the Borough,
the grants being subject to due compliance with the requirements
of the several authorities.
32. The proposal of the Local Government Board
that the Insurance Committee grant for Bethnal Green
should be £250 per annum to 31st March, 1918, calls
for consideration. It is probable that the London County
Council has agreed this to be a sufficient sum, but the
Bethnal Green Council will require to be satisfied as to
the sufficiency and certainty thereof.
33. During the course of consideration given by
the sub-committee to the question of providing a municipal
dispensary, estimates of capital and annual expenditure
have been based on the assumption that it would
be necessary to acquire the site of one house (No. 1
scheme), and, alternatively, to acquire the site of two
houses (No. 2 scheme).
34. Appended hereto is a statement of capital and
annual expenditure which the Borough Accountant now
estimates partly on the basis of information afforded
him by the Medical Officer of Health and the Borough