THE TREATMENT OF HOSPITAL OBFICERS."
[To TEE EDITOR 07 THE " SPECTATOR." J glff,—I have just seen the letter signed "House Surgeon" in your issue of July 20th, headed " The Treatment of Nurses," which really deals with the treatment of the resident officers in hospitals and their want of grit. I have been at infinite pains for a good many years to ascertain the facts in relation to the matters referred to, and I am convinced that the charges made do not apply to the great majority of onr voluntary hospitals, for they are, on the whole, the best administered hospitals in the world.
Again, it is not a question of making both ends meet, for every reputable voluntary hospital has ample money, at any rate to feed its staff, and patients as well. Besides, good and well-served food, under experienced management, is more economical than ill-cooked and bad food. Every hospital is liable to get inefficient officers, and it is the duty of all those who suffer from their inefficiency to help themselves by turn- ing the searchlight of knowledge upon all such abuses. In justice to the voluntary hospital I must request your corre- spondents either to publish the name of the institutions to which they refer or to send them to me in confidence.—I am,
Sir, &c., HENRY BuRDETT. The Lodge, Porchester Square, TV.
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