THE SCARLET FEVER HOSPITAL AGAIN.

Evening Star, Issue 4031, 27 January 1876, Page 2

THE SCARLET FEVER H OSPITAL AGAIN.

i 2V> *Ae Editor. / i ' ; Slßi-i-I hadho idea until withih tbpjmfnfo few days what pure and utterly unselfish- ttii£ tnotismcouldbe evoked at Hie 'shorteßt from some of our so-called leading men’ when ‘ vfc pecame known amongst them that our City Council had actually had the audacity (not' bavinthe fear of so-called leading men before their eyes), to erect a Fever Hospital on a portion; of the Town Belt, said Belt having bben set apart for the use o| the, people. <vf course the idea that such an institution miuht perhaps be the means of savin* the lives of scow# or hundreds of the children of very poorperwho, from their limited , means, co\dd not ppsdbly give tjie, art doted bnss those greatjespenr tials—plenty of space, pure air, efficient at-, tendance and many other things absolutely necessary .forthe recovery of thrtse visited with., this contageous disorder, besides very, greatly: redudng the chances of the disuse spreading in thekimmediateneigiborho^ii,lf sucha thought, purred to any of, the ; upper' would ’ doubtless appear, to. them perfectly loi^.^^,..tpߣap|;' tim itat.of; itsVltiw' H6s( ital) being |m eye to .them in thier' evening drives. &c.. &c., apd bfe nthenyfce myfa ‘ objectionable my deah felmh } yw know. Sbme~ foolish persons might actually think that a very f ery small portion pf;tha Toum*Bplt, siicK as that devotedtothis 4+osjMtaJ, be put p a more noble or christian-like use than the being oondudve towards saving the lives of-cyr'' thfelthdaght; why cannot the pommon people be ! oMitent to have > tindfierorV hospital, say, in-Great (King'street, dr the most thickly populated part OP George street, or anywhere*- v so. that.; it does not within the sight or acted ofc*)ur, nobility j therefore let us two lOrtthtee' of /the mushroomocracy MM? ests of the people ,of copree, aupjiot on our oWn mtiifor, mftkim not patriots (for ourselves alone), and let us draw a da, gprmitprecedent.nonßerrat'.on of nghts, &c., u-ttil we ravecarriftd onr Jitde* ; n.sr-hcst .little point being, i jhe -remov^^' t?u‘s bbjtctionfibfe. building tropi wltii}Hi|jflfrt pf our snug spbprbau villas*o.«omOj^wn,bte. say, for i stance «n the'.top of Mount"ilonki second little, point*, establjßhi.g the . btiiel iflinipngst the’f of a , •; ready to be led by the i[6se,. timtjvehaye thx- action merely from <p|hioiij) feelings,'aid■pat only, and a* a duty we orre to our fellow-

1 1. S. —lt may be interesting .to your readertU three or four were not m favor dfthetmJtotlor..v s which the meeting, was called, Axe we.to su»‘_ I pose,«u-,that thlej^mdlh’ud;of r represent* the rue' s of the 2b,000 iim&mtaaiW; ct .Dunedip. I, for one, flunk ' 1 U■. -i ;,...... tnV'df, -• peopfe in.’ i , cfuestipppf the pfesant t eitetelluye 1 ' l|«d hieftxad gt

theran amendme' t ootfld be proposed by a Person not n aiding in the vcinity of the hospital The,amendment was laudatory of the action of the Corp ration, winch accunts for the chair mau’* action. I dd not think after that specimen r ( ai feelinj of the meeting aryono will be taken & by the tall td*c about th© sacred rights of the citiz ns requiring looking »fter;by thetwentyone patriot'“who assembled at the, Athenaeum, and I only hope that they will subscribe nmongthem-elves, as I don’t think they will find much.support. ‘ ■ A little inquiiy as to the residence ofthe twen‘y-one will also and in determining, their motives in this agitation. I that'tb'h iie jdents in the neianb.'iihood., ottne Hospital street‘will hold 7 a . meeting - and ' although net the vicinity of the Fever Hospital a-sert their light to be hea’d on the am* &'c..J M. Di

To the Editor.

> I see that certain individuals styling themselves the citizens of Dunedin, a'e busy endeavoring to get qpa cry against the Corporation for erectin'- the Fever Hospital on a portion of the Town Belt. The mass ty for the erection of such a building isadmitted by alljahd I think the site mi at Buit_ble v / With, a view of testing the feeling* of the dtizens who dwell on the flats and more particularly m the immediate nei hbourhood of the Dunedin Hoapitd Reserve, to which it is proposed to remove the Fever /Hospilal by tiie philanthropic, persons who are at the bottom of the prevent movement, I word l suggest that a requisition be got up to the Mayor to call a public meeting, say in the Oddfellows’ H ill, of those who: are opposed to the removal, and I venture to say that the result of that meeting would materially s-trentheibthe hand* of the Corporation in their £ election of the present site in prefe ence to that proposed on the unoccup.ed portion of the Hospital grounds on the flat, in the centre of a dense population.—l am, &c , ’ ' , Flat Man. Dunedin, January 27,