THE HOSPITAL.

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume V, Issue 1481, 14 November 1905, Page 2

THE HOSPITAL.

TO THE EDITOE. Sißy-As a pioneemf tbo Waibi hospital . and a late patient;! may be permitted-, to any a word or two. I. fonoy th«j;Waihi , public hardly vooogniae as. yot tho.Venorimoas aßset thoy :havo ( ,in oat Hospital. Personally, I funoy :I should have been dead . before 1 reoohedtho Thamos. -Thai : is, hov/ever, a stnall matter,'of no interest to nny but myself. I should liko;'however, to give: an instance of the trouble to the nurses aud tho suffering saved■. to tho . paiients of a local hotpiia), \ LastWodnes- ■ d&7. night it r took tfce .nurses a full four hours to dress .the surgical cases in one ward. Ono case rnu st have' taken two hours, Independent of tbe detonator cast and a baokon leg, and I don't know hotf many other ! eurgical-and'tnedioal.oases, v No onocan insure himself {(gainst acoidont or disease, and if ho ouly lrnew the. idiffir- -. eneobetwoen being-treated by the taost : loving, wifo and the trained' etafl of ' the hospital, ho one would hesicato about the paltry subscription of one. pound a year; ; which guarantees him kind; and soientific treatment if he is hurt or ill,-I am, etc.i.