. TDB EDITOR OP THE "EPRCITAT'OR.1
SIR,-4 am surprised at the statement made in the Spectator of March 18th by " Senior Assistant-Master " that " there is in every boarding-house a suite of sick-rooms for patient and nurse, inspected by authority, and always reserved for the reception of cases needing quiet," &c. My experience is quite recent and widely different. Last year my, son had measles at Eton. He was very ill, and lay in his small room on a main passage of the house, with only a piece of paper on the door to prohibit his friends from rushing in. There was at the same time another much worse case for. which no better
accommodation could be found. The excellent house-master was in no way to blame. He gave up his own room to a nurse, and did everything in his power for the boys and their relatives. But not only had he no " suite of sick-rooms " at his disposal, .but no provision whatever for keeping a single patient quiet and protecting the house from infection. My belief is that whereas, owing to the recent agitation among parents and their memorials presented to the governing body, some such arrangements as are described by " Senior Assistant- Master" have been made in the newer and larger buildings, in the older rookeries which that body still permits to exist as boarding-houses nothing of the sort does or can exist.—I am, Sir, &c., A PARENT OF THREE ETON BOYS.
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