ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume V, Issue 361, 17 January 1849, Page 3

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

To the Editor of the New Zealand Spectator. Wellington, January I^, 1849. Sir, — Being about to leave the Hospital (a cured patient), lam desirous of availing myself of your Journal to return my sincere thanks to Dr. Fitzgerald for his unremitting attention to me during a period of fifteen months that I have been a patient in the Colonial Hospital. If not intruding too much on your space, I would wish to make a remark or two on some" correspondence lately printed in your contem- < porary the Independent, relative to tlfe Colonial Hospital; considering them, as I do, to be nothing but vicious attacks, arising-from-fefilings of jealousy, they would be not worthy of notice, were it not that they seem to imply the incompetency of the present Colonial Surgeon, and the probability of change, an occurrence which, is greatly dreaded by all the present Hospital Patients. Now, Sir, lam of opinion that success in a medical practitioner proves competency, if so I, as one of the oldest patients, can bear testimony that, in every individual case, he has been successful. Having stated this much, I shall conclude; for I am convinced that all persons having any acquaintance with Dr. Fitzgerald will at once coincide with me in the impossibility of his stooping to any thing unworthy of him as a medical practitioner and a gentleman. I am, Sir, Your obedient Servant, Thos. Fitzgerald. P.S. — I also wish to return my grateful thanks to Mr. and Mrs. Jacobs for many kindnesses received.