HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT.

Observer, Volume 6, Issue 149, 21 July 1883, Page 3

HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT.

A Parnell resident writes complaining of the conduct of a certain person who takes every opportunity of reviling fche management of the Hospital, and he asks how ifc was that no inquiry was held when a poor demented woman was" permitted, through lack of attention, to jump through one of the window's of that institution, fell from a height of 25 feet, and died next day. He asserts that the. woman made a previous attempt on the same day, but that the affair was ..hushed up because the culpable person is a near . Relative of the official referred tq. We believe that the circumstances occurred some months ago, when allusion was made to them in the Obsbbveb. -». COOL .' We heard that several of the leading men in ' Ponsonby were thinking of roplacing the wellknown three lamps by an ornamental fountain and drinking trough, somewhat after the style of that in the Albert Park, with lamps surmounting it. v This struck us as an admirable idea, and worthjJ?S||gAhe well-known liberality and public spirit of Vb^MrLl^-Jsitil -we wero informed ' that the cash was not fo come out of their pockets, but from the public loan ! ■ If this is the way the . pubhc loan is to be used, we are in it I Wo re- , quire a fountain with gold fish for the editorial sanctum, a number of gold-framed mirrors for , the council chamber, aiid a marble lavatory and swimming bath for tho comps.