HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT.

Thames Advertiser, Volume IX, Issue 2462, 4 November 1876, Page 3

HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT.

To the Editor of the THAMES ADVERTISER, Sib,-I think the committee of the Thames Hospital are greatly to blame for their action in regard to tho cook of that Institution. They have discharged a public servant with a bad character, without allowing him tho slightest opportunity of defending himself. Only very recently I was in the Hospital as a patient, and spent a good deal of the time in the kitchen. So far from seeing anything uncleanly, lean truthfully say that I was surprised and pleased to see everything kept in such good order. Surely the patients themselves should be tho best judges of the quality of the cooking, yet they make no complaint. The real cause of the discharge of the cook, I believe, is the fact that a fellow-servant, higher in office it is true, has made himself an enemy by ill-natured conduct. This makes it the more astonishing that a body of men should act in such a manner toward one of their servants, and it would only be common fairness to give him the chance of telling his side of the story.—l am, &c, COMPLAINBB. Thames, Fov. 3rd, 1876.

To tho Editor of the Tnims Advbmhsb. Fir,—l stated in the Police Court, and repeat now, that Captain Goldsmith, J.P., "made an ineffectual attempt to have me prosecuted for libel.'' He said "It was false." In this morning's paper he has made "another ineffectual attempt," and failed to prove my statement false. Why does he not publish all the correspondence on-his ineffectual attempt?—: J. D, Wickham.