Mexborough and Swinton Times February 4, 1922

The Penny Hospital

I am very glad to see that the little Fullerton Hospital at Denaby Main is thriving and is in no danger of those disturbing financial crisis in which are dislocating the work of far too many hospitals in this country.

The hospitals at Mexborough, Denaby Main and South Elmsall are splendid monuments to the staunchness of the workingmen, especially the miners, in the areas they serve in this humane business of the care of the sick and injured.

They also illustrate strikingly the virtue of caring for the pence. The Sheffield hospitals, which are in such a perilous financial plight, and the Barnsley and Rotherham hospitals, which are continually having to strain and get rid of accumulated debt, could be as easily kept on an even keel.

I note with satisfaction that the people who run the Sheffield hospitals or at least “tumbling” to the possibilities of the excellent system we have here and are organising regular weekly contributions amongst the workers. It is in any case a scandal that the city, which wallowed in war wealth as Sheffield did, should have left its hospitals in their present wretched position.