Correspondence.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3912, 13 July 1881, Page 2

Correspondence.

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(To the Editor of the Evenihj&.&cjjii). ■:i , . Sib, —Seeing by this morning's paper that Dr Payne seems inclined to make the '* worst of everything in the shape of sicfc- ?■ ness, I wish to vindicate myself against his remarks made in a letter, and at a meeting of the County Board of Health, published in this morning's paper. He says:—"finding it impossible to allow Beatty to enter the Hospital, he proceeded to a certain boarding-house in Grahams- . town, where two children were laid up, ... \Fith fever, and asked that the man be allowed to take up his. quarters His request was refused, which he^did *^ not think was at all right, &c."" Iff'Uii'iiTKfirst place, I think it was a great piece of impudence for Dr Payne to ask admittance for a man, who, he-said, was suffering from scarlet fever, wheife twd obildrek ■ y'-»-were being treated for the same disease— . one being better and up 6\L\ of bed since, „ Sunday, having been in, bed only eight- i days previously, and the other is not near < as bad as the first one. If scarlet fefep^,^ had not been so prevalent at the ticoe, I should not have sent for a doctor at all, but simply treated them for a bad cold. If it was scarlet fever, it was so mild that I should not have known. . I should think I could be fairly accused of inhumanity to my children if I had admitted the man into my house.—l am, &c, E. Hales. ; -