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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4459, 20 April 1883, Page 3

, - (To the Editor of the Erening Sfcar.J Siß,-rAH who have the interests of our; -,- Hospital at heart must look .with regret* on Wednesday night's proceedings and their result. The meeting was no index of the interest taken by the public in thp welfare of the institution ; it was simply an effort on the part of a certain number of subscribers to appoint'such a committee - as would secure the return of one or other (especially the one) of our medical men as House Surgeon. I bare a word to say ' ; against the Committee so appointed. I ' - •••believe they are'gentlemen capable of discharging efficiently all the duties appertaining to their office, and prepared to- dp so. , But still, I say they hold ,an anomalous position in the < eyes* of the public. It is no matter

f , pit rumours-it, is a well-known fact— that ' extreme efforts were made by at least one „ r me^ipaj^e.njleman to secure.the:return;of •'jbertaih number of members on the .Cffinmittefr-^m fact ,to. pack such a committee as would make certain his return at the forthcoming election. Now, it is a - fair: inference, to. draw; that he bad an understanding with those gentlemen before:he dared make the nse of their names that he has done. Therefore we have a committee who stand pledged to ■' support a certain candidate against all 'comers. Now, this state of things ought • not to be. I hold that a committee which ' is trammelled by a promise, either implied ; or direct are not true representatives of "the general body of subrcribers, and j i; 'cannot be tha best conserverg of the „/ interests .of .the Institution glvea over to . their charge.—l am, &c, . -,^. : >, „; „ . ; -A Looker-on.