To the Editor: —So much has been said on the other side of this question that a brief notation of two cases on the low cost of being sick in a hospital I thought might be read with some sense of relief; so I am submitting them for publication. The Foundling Hospital in Dublin, as is well known, has a worldwide fame for the practice and teaching of obstetrics. When I visited this hospital, I was utterly amazed at the simplicity of the building and the equipment of this famous institution. It was very efficient, very clean and very homelike. Only recently I noted inThe Journalthat Dr. Bethel Solomons of this hospital, after an extensive visit to the United States, was asked to give his impression of American hospitals. He replied to the effect that they were far too elaborate and expensive and that with simpler equipment and
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