EXTRAVAGANCE IN OUR LOCAL BODIES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 8065, 28 September 1887, Page 3

EXTRAVAGANCE IN OUR LOCAL BODIES.

TO THB BDITOB. Sib,—Our Hospital ba>, I am informed, "A Lady Superintendent," sixteen highly qualified nurses, got up in the latest style for hospital nurses, four men assistants, and the help of all patients snfficently recovered to assist. No person who has visited this much managed institution will begrudge them all the assliUnce they have at their command, to assiift poor suffering humanity, but under the <rery walls of this well attended hospital, there is a building called the Old Men's Refuge, which now contains old, helpless men, removed from the other grand institution as incurable, who have little or no assistance except what tfcijy get from each other. My informant assume me that in one ward there are twenty firs old and feeble men with but four old men to attend to the wants and sufferings of the lot. What a contrast t Enough to make angels weep. If these well kept and much lauded staff of nurses and the lady superintendent would visit them once a week, and from their trained knowledge, smooth their suffering old age, they would, of a certain be aiding the cause of humanity.—l am, kc , Dctki: HnMPEBsr.