7 AUGUST 1915, Page 16

[TO THZ EDITOR 01 THE 11 SPECTATOR. "] SIR, — Over and over

again for several months I have asked my fellow-rankers in and out of hospital the following question: Which do you like best—the V.A.D. Hospital or the Regular Military Hospital P The reply is always the same. The V.A.D. invariably wins. The writer himself has lain for about a week in each, and I most undoubtedly prefer the hospital run by the V.A.D. The regular military hospital, with all its superior scientific knowledge, lacks the greater sympathetic touch so ably supplied by the V.A.D. It is "sympathy," and not medicine, which more often wins in cases of sickness.—I am, Sir, 8te., A Noss-Cosa.