SWEEPSTAKES.
One hears so much about the impracticability of an English hospitals sweepstake because of its effect upon present sub- scribers that you may be interested in a letter which I have received from a subscriber to the East London Hospital for Children. This gentleman threatens to discontinue his subscription to my hospital unless hospitals in general take a decided action in favour of legalizing sweepstakes for the benefit of the English hospitals. This somewhat navel point of view is at least interesting as indicative of the growing impatience amongst habitual subscribers who realize that their continued efforts, unsupplemented by other and perhaps drastic means, cannot in these days suffice to keep going the present Voluntary Hospital System.—W. M. Wu.cox, Secretary, East London Hospital for Children, Shadwell, E. 1.
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