THE HOSPITAL QUESTION.

Patea Mail, Volume II, Issue 137, 2 August 1876, Page 2

THE HOSPITAL QUESTION.

(-c. ' ' ••• ..b cv rKS a Sib. —You will oh%e : . ) by allowin'-; space in ynr columns £cr r, few remarks upon a subject which :s attracting sc.no attention at present. I refer to the establishment of a District hospital at Car yle. As ‘t is my intention to call a pub ic meeting upon the same I would wish to make a few remarks which may possibly tend to increase the interest gens.ailr evinced on this i.rpoiiant matter. Yp , are, i have no c!:nb*, "■ : racily aware of the fact, that .lie o ?■ in Carlyle a srge and comniodio.s i .filing, which to all in tents me! pri-po: :s is O present useless, errorplng. -rnti* l .'tier 1 ", or such purposes as balls, &c., r id which is now occuniod bv one or tv;-) o' 'h. nonsiabnlavy, driven thither throw ’ i’ ?. di' ipidated condition of their own • • rs. t refer to the

Immigration E.'-t.c I '*. I win! 3 ack you ■ if it is i’ic intrntin of too Government to keep this build'eg cloecd Up and use* ess, when a portion of the seme could be conve led into a comovt"ble asylum for the sick and maVrod. To daily occurrence of accidents witl' : n thk di /riot make-such an establishment :‘**; ispen-.dole, and what bettor bject c/uld the building, or a portion f it, be ' ovote: 1 to than the ore in question. I r.v. c£ opiai-m that the G-o_ vornraeat would grant tboroe of it were proper ppph option made. To jive you instances ov the necessity of thin accommodation, there are a, present five special cases, and a number- of other minor ones under raedi.r.' t-e d'nant, and such comforts as the rketer wt • hislimited moans at bis command can p;?vs *hoo. Throe of these ■ cases are he. ted m public ’-cusps, and two arc in one of the dlia.pidaT.:! r.parhnentj, the iclei.t'cal one vacated by the constabulary aS beinv unfit even for a perfectly healthy man. Should these few remarks hr.ve warmed the public into some Interest in this matte:*, the*-* will have attained the object for which they were dished.—l am &c.‘ JAMES LETT.