26 MARCH 1932, Page 16

POINTS FROM LETTERS NOISE . IN HOSPITALS.

I beg to endorse all your recent correspondent wrote on this topic. The nurses ought to wear silent . shoes or those, with rubber heels at least, and .the cleaners ought-not to bang pails, &c., about as if it were likely to cheer the patients up. I was at one time daily in a well-known- hospital and the needless noise was a constant subject of amazement to me.—LEss NOISE PLEASE,