THE LUNATIC ASYLUM.
■ To the Editor, Sib, —In an article in this morning's ‘ Times ’ nnduo credit, I consider, is given to Dr Hulme. It is Mr Hume who has made the Asylum what it is, though it is not quite so great a gem as your Rattray' street contemporary seems to consider it. I would like the * Times - to crack the following nuts:— Can it adduce another example in the whole world where our local hospital has been so much monopolised by one medical man? Can it deny that the Provincial Government paid, up to last year, the sum of LSOO per annum to the visiting medical officer of the Hospital and Gaol; and that the extent of time devoted by this gentleman to the 170 in-patients seldom amounted to one and a-half hours daily ? Can it dtny that the . Provincial Government has been paying, since last year, the sum of L3OO to three other medical men, making a total of LBOO per annum—an extravagance unparalleled throughout the world ? Can your contemporary find any reference to this in the lately issued estimates of expenditure and receipts of the Provincial Government ?—I am, &c., w A.B.C. Dunedin, May 30.
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Evening Star, Issue 4136, 30 May 1876, Page 3
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198THE LUNATIC ASYLUM. Evening Star, Issue 4136, 30 May 1876, Page 3
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