[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

Sin,—In London cheapness cannot be expected, nor even reasonable charges. Fashion is, and always has been, the most expensive factor in life. I append a comparative table of the charges in a provincial centre which will show that apart from travelling your correspondent could have obtained what was required for at least 40 per cent, less than the Swiss charges.

London.

Nursing Home IlaInten- £ s. d. ance 18 days, use of Operating Theatre, Anaesthetics, Dress.

Provincial Nursing Home.

a. d. Pro‘Incial PnwIncial

Private Private

Hospital Hospital A. 11.

£ s. tl. i.d. Swiss.

£ 6. di

tags 27 0 0 1700 1200 1500 1705 Specialist's Fee 105 0 0 50 0 0 1000 2500 5000 Practitioner's Few —

1

7 8 0 0 Total.. — 132 0 0 67 0 0 22 0 0 40 0 0 5500

If patientof If a patient member of of a non- acting staff, member of acting staff.

Travelling expenses omitted. At another provincial private hospital in another centre charges slightly higher but approximately the same as A and slightly Ian than B.

—I am, Sir, &c.,