PROPOSED REMOVAL OF THE MEDICAL

COLLEGE

HOSPITAL. "We find it stated in the that the

urging

Bengal

Englishman

of the 29th

June

Government does not consider itself

the Government of India to add to the

modation of the

justified in existing accom-

College Hospital an increase which is necessary providing quarters for a Resident Chaplain and

for the purpose of

Subordinate Medical Officers.

The

reason

for this decision lies

in the fact of the present Hospital condemned by the Physicians and

having been emphatically Surgeons attached to it. As the representation of its present demerits has been thin distinctly endorsed by the Bengal Government, the only conclusion left for us to arrive at is,?that instead of patching up what is faulty, and trying to make bad better, it is the desire of the Local Government to erect a new Hospital with as

little delay

as

possible.

end than

were

There can be no doubt that

the

much grander it to accept the indefeasible judgment of those wiio in the mere outward magnificence of the present

Government will in this

manner

act up to

a

perfection building, the radical defects of which have caused it to be emphatically condemned by its Staff, and denied even benefit of Clergy by the Government. see