HOSPITAL TREATMENT.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4787, 10 December 1924, Page 2

HOSPITAL TREATMENT.

AN UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIAL. A PECULIAR LETTER. Some peculiar fetters are received by local bodies. The following epistle was received by the Thames Hospital Board this month from a Hauraki Plains resident: — ‘‘Would you kindly favour by conveying through your board my thanks and appreciation to the medical and nursing staff of the medical ward for unstinted attention to me during a sojourn of eight days in your institution. Also allow me to congratulate the board upon the excellent food supplied to patients—both quality and quantity are without reproach. Your milk supply is par-excellence. It is reminiscent of the small city boy visiting a dairy farm : he is in the cowshed having a good fill of honest farmer’s milk (Thames Hospital milk). The farmer tunned to him and asked: ‘Do you like milk, sonny ?‘ ‘Rather,’ answered tlie boy; ‘I wish our milkman kept a cow.’ •■To the unnatural pessimistic growlers, who, like the poor, are unfortunately always with us: To the male of that ilk I suggest that he be a gentleman and act the man; to the female, be a lady and, above all, act the woman, and you will have no cause for complaint as to treatment when an inmate of the Thames Hospital. "Wishing you, your board, and the grand institution everything of the best. Thanking you in anticipation. I have the honour to be dear Sir, yours faithfully, —: — Tn reply to the chairman, the secretary reported that the writer had been an inmate for eight days and had not yet paid his account.