The Evening Star: WITH WHICH ARE INCORPORATED The Evening News and The Morning News, and The Echo. SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 1883.

Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 3958, 7 April 1883, Page 2

The Evening Star: WITH WHICH ARE INCORPORATED The Evening News and The Morning News, and The Echo.

SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 1883.

For ths causa that lades assistance For tho wrong that needs tesktaoca, For tho future in thn distance, And the cood that wo can da.

Vis think the Hospital Committee and tho public may fairly be congratulated upon tho appointments that have now been made to tbe honorary medical staff. Considerable disappointment was felt in tho outset at the apparent indifference of tho medical profes* sion with regard to the institution, but the postponement has resulted in a selection that will command tho confidence of tho public, and will secure for the patients firat-clasa medical treatment. The selections mado are as follow :—

' Consulting Physicians akd Sub(JEONS—Dm. Goldsbro' and Phikon.

Visitihg Staff—Drs. Haines, Hoopor, Richardson, and Stockwell.

The services of tho staff are cntiroly honorary, and when tho distance of tho hospital from the centre of the city is considered, wo think the gentlemen who have volunteered their services deserve the Wg^]Prai?cj£L,%uS6fiPte'l%irtsrl t&TJes charge of the now cases coming into the institution during his weok, and attends them to the end ot their sickness. By this arrangement the whole of the staff will be kept in almost daily attendance at the hospital—a duty involving no little labour, In difficult cases, where a consultation is desired by any one of the visiting surgeons, the services of Drs. Phihon and Goldsbro', the Consulting Physicians and Surgeons, will always be available. Tho services of these gentlemen, who have been intimately associated with the institution for many years, are thus permanently retained. Urgent cases have the immediate and con* stant services of the resident surgeon. Tho altered system secures for the hospital a wide rancjo of medical experience, and for the profession better surgical practice than is afforded by even the most extensive circle of private patients. The institution itself should also gain in efficiency, by the extended supervision of the medical staff and committee. It is unreasonable, however, to expect reforms immediately. The committee have entered upon new and delicate duties, and will have to feel their way very carefully, in order to avoid making changes that are not improvements. They also experience much annoyance through the dilatoriness of the General Government in roplying to communicationu—letters and telegrams lying for a fortnight at a time without an answer. The commltteo, however, are earnest in their determination to make the institution a credit to the city; and now that they have overcome so satisfactorily the initial difficulty of a skilful medical staff, the i course is comparatively clear