HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT, ETC.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4469, 2 May 1883, Page 2

HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT, ETC.

(To the Editor of the Erening Star.] Sib,—'-In looking over the columns of your contemporary this morning I perceived a letter giving some excellent : advice for the better management of our Hospital, which all should read and consider. The Hoppital ought to be the premier institution of our community, and be so managed that all might look upon it with favor; but it is not so, and never will be so as long as its present management is continued. Talk of the falling off of subscriptions ; who in his senses will give his money to be squandered away after the present fashion ? Who does do so except the poor miners? and these not voluntarily, but under the pressure of coercion. Precious few. "Subscriber's " i letter hits the nail on the head; it probes the wound to the bottom and applies the healing balsam. It shews up the whole management as a monstrosity not. to be tolerated for a month if the community as one man will only demand a change. When will. the Thames people wake up and open their eyes to see that " selfish rings," and cliques, and sects, and parties are bringing ruin on the community at large, and all its institutions, while a few I only ben: fit thereby P We have these rings innumerable* There is the Templar ring, the publican's ring, the : i Masonic ring, the mininer rings, the theological rings, the land rings, the Druids' ring, the Benefit Societies' rings; then there is the Hospital ring, which is bound to keep in position, by means good, bad, or indifferent, their favorite sawbones y then there is the County ring; the secular education ring ; and now some people are saying there is a newspaper ring, and presently, I suppose, we shall have a " Salvation Army " ring, which may prove the worst of all the lot. Now all these various rings are either more or less the representatives of self love, or self-interest, and that alone. When, I say then, will people wake up and devise some broad, comprehensive, and liberal means for the benefit of the community as a whole? When will they drop their little-mindedness in some measure, and begin to love their neighbors as they love themselves, not' thinking merely of their own things, but the things of their neighbors also ? Rings and cliques, and sects and parties are fast ruining the United States of America, and these bid fair to do the same thing for New Zealand, whose government is one huge land ring. These rings have pretty well done so already on the Thames ; they bring oppression on the mass of the people, and when these are oppressed there can be no real prosperity in any community, for they, the masses, are the backbone of states, nations, and communities.—l am, &d., "A' Suoab No. 3. May Day, 1883.