CHRISTCHURCH PUBLIC HOSPITAL

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21992, 16 January 1937, Page 17

CHRISTCHURCH PUBLIC HOSPITAL

TO THE EDITOR 01" THE THESS. Sir,—l would like to tell "Hospital Visitor" that one of the probable results of his or her interference is that we will get no more peas to shell, or to eat; the authorities may feel it best to carry on with the cheap -r and more easily prepared cabbage and turnip. I endorse all "E.A.L," says about the •uricHnm nf Dr. Nelson and the nurses.

We returned soldiers feel. we are in safe hands! Certainly, they can't cure that catching disease, old age; but they may mitigate its oncoming, by giving the old boys peas to shell.—Yours, etc., RETURNED SOLDIER. January 15, 1937. TO THE EDITOR OK THE PRESS. Sir,—l have been a patient in the Christchurch Public Hospital for some months, and would like to tell your correspondent, "Hospital Visitor," that treatment, care, and cleanliness are all that could be desired. Had Ke gone to the trouble to find out, he would have found that the patients who were shelling peas were mainly surgical cases, and that the bed-ridden patients were suffering chiefly from broken legs and arms. • —Yours, etc., _ P.H.R. * January 14, 1937.

DR. TILLYARD TO THE EDITOR OF THE PRESS. Sir,—We all know that Dr. Tillyard was a famous entomologist, and he scoured the world for balancing parasites, whereby the country was saved hundreds of thousands of pounds. But it is not so well known that during his latter years he was an equally keen psychic science researcher, and he found that spirits could be caught and, cross-examined, as it were, and they* were as real in their own spheres as butterflies and moths are in ours. Like Sir Oliver Lodge and many another scientist. Dr. Tillyard felt that he would not be wasting his time if he spent some of it in examining this spiritualism, to see if it was the colossal fraud some asserted it was, or, as W. E. Gladstone pronounced psychic science, the most important fie^d''for research.—Yours, etc., PETER TROLOVE. January 15, 1937.