MANAGEMENT OF ASYLUMS, &c.
TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —Referring to a correspondent's remarks in your issue of the 27th inst., re hospitals, gaols, and asylums, as regards hospitals and gaols I don't know anything concerning them, but with the asylum I am fully conversant, being at present the clerk and storekeeper of the institution ; and I beg to inform you that, as regards the asylum, your correspondent's remarks are not ; t all applicable. The contractors are kept strictly to the stipulations of their contract, and tho system of expenditure is efficiently attended to, and a perfect check kept, and all matters, however trivial or else, aresubmitfctd to the General Government through the Inspector of Asylums. There is not at present any fear of "abuses" arising.—l am, &c., F. Cahill. Auckland Lunatic Asylum, Jan. 2S, 1879.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5370, 1 February 1879, Page 6
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