23 JUNE 1877, Page 15

HOSPITAL ORGANISATION. iTO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."

Srn,—The very gratifying notice of Cheyne Hospital in your article on " Hospital Organisations," in the Spectator for June 16, is likely to be so widely noticed, that I venture to trouble you with a few words in correction of the statement that the endowment of a cot costs only £500, while the annual expense is £40. The cost of endowment to the public is £600, which produces, at 5 per cent., £30 ; children's payments, 4s. a week, £10 ; total, £40.—I am, Sir, &c.,