To safeguard the position in those hospitals in which there is no special private accommodation, the hospital should, in its rtules, make it a condition that a patient of status coming within the category of private or paying patients will be charged maintenance and treatment fees, and that the hospital will make no application to the insurer uiider the Road Traffic Act. The position is a new and important one, and it is very desirable that a proper precedent should be established at the

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... ng. I trust, therefore, that you will place this letler before the members of the visiting medical staff of your hospital at the earliest opportunity, and tha-t the staff will take immediate action.