MEDICAL TREATMENT FOR THE MIDDLE CLASSES
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin—Having missed my Spectator for a couple of weeks— 'a void only to be filled by reading the back numbers—I have not until to-day seen Sir Robert Usher's letter in the issue of May 16th. Prompted by Miss Kingston's articles on the middle classes and the need of hospitals for those classes, his letter informed your readers of the Queen Mary Nursing Home in Edinburgh having been founded by public subscrip- tions.
Last week, in this city, there was handed over for the use of the public and formally opened a similar private nursing home. It is a magnificent building in a quiet street which has been acquired, reconstructed and equipped for its purpose by one of Leicester's most honoured citizens, Mr. T. Fielding Johnson, J.P. Like the Edinburgh home it provides accom- modation for about fifty patients at moderate charges ; such charges as will, it is intended, pay the working expenses of the place and no more. The founder of this beneficent institution was for many years the chairman of the local infirmary, and in that capacity became impressed with the lack of such . provision for those whb are able and willing to pay moderate - fees. By his munificence Leicester's needs in that respect have now been met. The hospital is equipped with the latest appliances known to medical science. All this has been done by the generosity of one man, who has been too modest to make known the total cost, but it is believed to be not less than £50,000. The opening of the home has been hailed by the medical profession of the town and county. So in- spiring an example of philanthropy deserves to be more than
locally known.—I am, Sir, &c., A GRATEFUL CITIZEN. Leicester, May 31st.
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