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Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18367, 28 April 1925, Page 11

TO THE EDITOR Or "TBT, TBESS." Sir, —Mr Otley's statement regarding the above is open to criticism. According to Friday's "Press," he visits the soldiers'- sanatorium a good deal, and has always found the food and conditions as good as he would want; but please bear in mind that Mr Otley has not got tuberculosis. Such trifles make men view things differently. On the few occasions during the last eighteen months that, he went round the patients he certainly received complaints, but possibly he forgot them.

He mentions that in the soldiers' sanatorium nearly double the amount per man is expended compared with the consumption sanatorium. He fails to mention, however, that the general outlay of the soldiers' sanatorium and the lack of facilities for attending to sick men entail a great deal of the extra expense. The patients—the ones most concerned —gain nothing by such extra expense. His own figures show that £1 5s more per head is expended on food (of vast interest"to T.B.'s). in the consumption sanatorium as compared with the soldiers' sanatorium.

Food and conditions are not bad up here at present, but they could certainly be improved.' So why not admit it?— Yours, etc., PATIENT BUT INTERESTED. April 26th.