THE DUNEDIN HOSPITAL.

Evening Star, Issue 3503, 15 May 1874, Page 3

THE DUNEDIN HOSPITAL.

To the Editor. Sir,— The comments on the Hospital contained in a leader of the ‘ Otago Daily Times ’ of this morning reminds me of the culogium passed on the same institution by a leading politician of this town on the hustings a short time since. He said it would compare favorably with any other hospital in any other part of the world. What a melancholy instance of the aberration of sound thought, when influenced by political motives | Let this gentleman visit the Yiptoriah, and the Trinidad hospitals, arid -'learn what is ■ done there, and he would be disposed to crow less over hifs own dung-hili. But this is not enough ;he ig not content with stopping here, but must needs commit himself still more ; fie is not prepared to say whether or not two lioni s three times a week be sufficient to bestow on bo important an institution as the Dunedin Hospital, Can it be a matter of surprise then, after this admission, that liia candidature snould have been a failure ? Away- with suck jobbery and jargon : they are alike/a‘4lsjkate’ tb the town. If the medical officer of the Dunedin Hospital were properly impressed with the impqrfcance of the duties pertaining to the office, he woqld have been cpnvmccd by this time that private practice- could not be advantageously combined with public duty; he would feel he could not serve two masters; he would feel convinced that private practice and public duty were antagonistic in their nature, and that, in common honesty, he was compelled to renounce the one or the other. This he has not done, neither does he intend to do. When the plan recommended by Drßakewell is adopted, the hosB 1 !^ 1 SUI merit tfie support of tng community, le respect of the town, and‘the confidence of the couuny. 1 A Man of the People. Dunedin, May 14. [We have been obliged to strike out some passages ip. tips [etter. The statements made therein were of such a character that, in the present undefined state of the law of libel, there would be a great risk in publishing them, no matter bow truthful they might be, though, of course, on the latter ponß, We do’not otfeiany opiuibn.— Ed. ‘Ef S.’]’