ADDENBROOKE'S HOSPITAL BILL.

HL Deb 04 August 1903 vol 126 cc1404-5

[SECOND READING.]

Order of the Day for the Second Reading read.

VISCOUNT CROSS

My Lords, the scheme to be confirmed by this Bill has been prepared by the Charity Commissioners, at the request of the General Court of Governors of Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, after a public inquiry held in the Guildhall. The object is to establish a responsible executive elected by the Governors, and charged with the administration of the Hospital. The committee to be elected is to be representative of the Governors resident in the borough, the University, and the surrounding counties, respectively. The scheme defines the mode of election, the powers, and the duties of the committee. The scheme provided by the Act of 1766, under which the Hospital is now administered, gives the management to the Governors at large, and there is no authority for the appointment of an executive committee. The institution has now about 650 Governors, and it has outgrown the limits within which the existing mode of government is efficient. This is a Bill that is agreed to by all parties, and I hope your Lordships will give it a Second Reading.

Moved, that the Bill be now read 2^a, (Viscount Cross).

On Question, Bill read 2^a, and committed to a Committee of the whole House on Thursday next