LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
THE INSURANCE BILL.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR.”]
SIR,—The National Insurance Bill has many sides, but the recruiting of over 400,000 hospital in-patients each year, without the provision of one hospital bei for their reception, would probably be the strangest.
I venture earnestly to ask every responsible editor of a British newspaper to examine carefully the facts contained in the first article and the special supplement published in the Hospital of November 18th. Despite what has been said to the contrary, the Bill does not in fact provide " adequate medical treatment without the taint of charity," or at all, as it stands. When seriously ill the position of the insured will be worse under the Bill than it has ever been before.—I am, Sir, HENRY C. RCIRDETT. The " Hospital," 28 and 29 Southampton Street,
Strand, London, W.C.
P.S.—The voluntary hospitals all over Great Britain are now organized. A great meeting of their representatives will be held in London before the Bill enters upon the Report stage, when, if at all, hospital benefit must be secured.
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