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Except for the payments indicated, the Association is entirely dependent on
voluntary subscriptions and several of the mental hospitals have been enabled
to contribute to the Association's funds by making articles for sale and as a result
of entertainments.
Queen Adelaide's Fund.
Queen
Adelaide's
fund.

Though the majority of the grants were made at the date of the patients' discharge,
a small number were made to ex-patients after they had left the hospital.
Canteens for
patients.
Canteens.
51. We have authorised the establishment of a canteen for use by patients at
each of the London County mental hospitals on the understanding that the cost
shall not be a charge on the Council's funds.
Appointment
of consulting
medical staff.
Affiliation to General Hospitals.
52. In our last report (Annual Report of the Council, 1927, Vol. II. pars. 54
and 55) we stated that the Council had authorised arrangements for the services of
consultants on the staff of two of the London general hospitals (the London and
Guy's hospitals) to be available for two of the London County mental hospitals
(Claybury and Bexley). During the year under review arrangements.on similar
lines have been made for the services of consultants on the staffs of Charing Cross,
Middlesex, St. Mary's, and the Royal Free hospitals, to be available for Banstead,
Cane Hill, Hanwell, and Horton mental hospitals, respectively. In each case the
consultants include a physician, a surgeon, a gynaecologist, an ear, nose and throat
surgeon, and an ophthalmologist. The services at Banstead and Hanwell mental
hospitals of a consulting dermatologist, and at Hanwell mental hospital of a consulting
neurologist also will be available. In addition, arrangements have been
made for consultants on the staff of University College hospital (a physician, a
surgeon, an ophthalmologist, an ear, nose and throat surgeon and a gynaecologist) to
be available for Long Grove mental hospital and the Ewell Colony. The limit of
expenditure in any one year for the services of consultants is £200 for each of the
larger mental hospitals and £50 for the Ewell Colony. An honorarium of £4 4s. is
payable for each visit, with an additional allowance of 10s. for travelling expenses.
Scheme for
clini cal
instruction in
psychiatry
for medical
students.
53. In the course of negotiations for the services of consultants on the staff of
the Royal Free hospital to be available for Horton mental hospital, the authorities
of the Royal Free hospital, with which is associated the London School of Medicine
for Women, asked for facilities to be given at Horton mental hospital for clinical
instruction in psychiatry for their medical students, and for the medical