Apr. 6.
THE correspondence on this topic calls for a statement of the facts, in order, if possible, to stop the facile repetition of prejudiced and wholly inaccurate gossip. In answer first to ''Ex-porto Credite's'' letter yesterday, exception must be taken to the looseness of his assertion that German doctors are excluded from ''several local hospitals.' The only two with which the public are concerned as ratepayers are the General Hospital and the Victoria Nursing Home. Of the remainder we do not know what the practice is at the Ste. Marie, but also we do not know that a German doctor has yet thought of presenting himself at the doors of a purely French institution. The rest are private or semi-private, and if they choose to exclude German doctors (we do not know whether they do or not) that is their affair. All we have to consider is the hospitals in which the public, as ratepayers, paying some of the cost, may claim to call some of the tune. It is entirely incorrect to say, as ''Experto Cre-
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