Sts,-1 was very 'interested in the article by Susan Catling,
as my own experience of local hospitals is so different. My small son, stricken. out of the blue by virus pneumonia at 1.30 a.m. on Whitsunday morning, was in hospital within twenty minutes or so of calling the doctor and was being given oxygen and X-rayed within the half-hour. When he re- covered consciousness, he was taken immediately to a nearby hospital better able to deal with his con- dition and settled in a steam tent by 2.30 a.m. Despite the desperate urgency, my husband and I were given every consideration by doctors and nurses, even to the extent of being brought home by ambulance.
This is not an isolated instance, as I could quote several other people who have every reason to bless the efficiency of our hospital service, whatever the time of day or night. Perhaps we are lucky, but the Oxbridge hospital in Emergency--Ward 10 could learn quite a few points from a study of our local methods.—Yours faithfully,
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