THE HOSPITAL.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 671, 7 September 1876, Page 3

THE HOSPITAL.

giß,— In a recent, copy of jour paper you ttato that th« hosp Ul rat-*hliihed h^re wm intend d at a " fre« public" ho-pital * for »H Waikato. Such, I asiuro you, howerer, it it not, whu«T<sr the >ntention of Sir Donald McLean, when here on a * risit, mty h^»e btea Applicant!, I i>m told, hare been refraed admiMion or advice' on the plea ihat they were neither pauper* or inTi»hd», on» of which, it teemi. they umt he to obta n the adranta*« of hospital treatmrtit. I think if ia the du'y of the pre-i to take up »uoh matters in the public interest. — 1 am, Ac Kisid k SM. .

[I is the duty or th • peas t> A> so wh^n it becomes nwareof fact*. The pres* ia not hjwover omniwient an 1 if persons )ik«» our correpp'indent ftbovo, inst -ad of -imply gruinbling wou'd *tite fucta ami mike their cuss known to the pra^«, not »uguelv, but in an infrl^glble and detailed •'n'OTiPnt, Hiey would huro no <ftme tf> rfmplnin of want of *tmr>*'nj or support from the pres*. reaflin-r " Kesid fntV letter l)»r« no more dnla to %i npon than before, \V» will miko enquri* into the m ttter. H>id th to been »nj real raiiif of complaint, bow<vpr, we •'•ould doubt lt'sa hive heard it from onr or oiber of the ng^rieTed paitie*. — E» W I.]