PRIVATE HOSPITAL.
(To tho Editor.)
Sir, —1 notice in your columns awhile ago that there was a likelihood of Dr. Collins leaving the Hospital, and that he could command a good private practice in Auckland city and suburbs. There is a want much needed for strangers and country folks—a private hospital. When sickness enters a family residing , a long way from a medical man it means almost ruin. A poor man lately ran up a bill of £30 for a member of his family. He has nob the means to pay it. £4 and £5 visits come hard on anyone. I think if a doctor was to take such a building as Brister'a Coffee Palaco and make a private hospital and nonsuiting rooms, with an apothecary hall, many town and country people would subscribe, say at least a guinea. I would reckon three or fAir hundred at that for the privilege of consulting and paying a standard fee for hospital :iccotnmodation. I would recommend the same to the consideration of Country Road Boards and Country School Committees, as organised centres for the public good.—l am, etc, A Country Man.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 95, 25 April 1891, Page 2
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