THE HOSPITAL.

Evening Star, Issue 3288, 3 September 1873, Page 3

THE HOSPITAL.

To the Editor. Sir, —I have to call your attention to the fact that you are kind enough to send two papers, the Guardian one, and the Dally Times one, for, I believe, the use of the hospital. Now, sir, would you believe it, that these papers are for the sole use of the doctors and the subordinates of this institution, they thinking the poor patients don’t want to know anything of the outside world. Possibly the patients may get hold of a paper when it is a few days old.—l am, (fee., A Patient.

Dunedin, Sept, 2. To the Editor. Sir, —when the credit of a bank is assailed in the Old Country, it is not to say common for the messenger to rush into print in defence of the institution ; but this being the Antipodes, I find that we are upside down with England, ergo things are reversed, which accounts for the house steward of the Dunedin Hospital throwing down the gage of his pastors and masters. If the hospital is maligned, denial of a certain discreditable iumstance within its walls might come trom some person identical with the management, and not from the responsible custodian of tooth-brushes, blacking, bandages, soap, &c. What’s Hecuba to him, or ho to Hecuba ? Until the main facts of the allegation—generally admitted as correct, report sayeth —are explained away, as in common humanity it should be, belief will live. —I am, Sir, yours, &c,, New Chum, ex Argus. Dunedin, September 2.