[To the Editor of the Sri crATon.]
Sin,—I must ask you to be good enough to correct a statement in Miss Gertrude Kingston's Article No. IV. It was in my own evidence before Lord Mackenzie's committee that I personally advocated the opening of our large general hospitals and infirmaries to patients of limited means ; and in my letter to you I went still further and pleaded for the admission of all classes of the community. The committee under Lord Mackenzie has not, so far as I know, yet issued its report ; and what its findings may be nobody as yet knows. It is, therefore, wrong to state, as Miss Kingston does, that " Lord Mackenzie and a strong committee urged that hospitals be thrown open to all classes, by which means hospitals and public would both benefit."—I am, Sir, &e.,
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