FINANCE

<p>Further records relating to the hospital's finances can be found in the Administration section (MH/T4/A), particularly among the minutes, records of bequests and charities, correspondence and annual reports. Additionally, a scrapbook relating to a Grand Jubilee Bazaar held in 1887 to raise funds can be found under reference MH/T4/AZ 1.</p>

Until the National Health Service (NHS) took over in July 1948, Kent and Canterbury Hospital was wholly responsible for raising its own income. It did this through a variety of methods but mainly relied on subscribers, contributors, benefactors and fund-raising events.

From 1920, a Propaganda Committee (see MH/T4/AMc 9) was appointed to help the hospital secure the funds it required. Eighteen years later, the responsibility for fund-raising was transferred to the newly-formed Contributory Scheme Committee (see MH/T4/AMc 3) and the Appeals Committee, both sub-committees of the Board of Management (see MH/T4/AM 3). These two committees were appointed to administer the new Contributory Scheme which replaced the former Household Box Scheme and the Workpeople's Contributory Scheme.