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might be creditable to any of our metropolitan 

 hospitals. The patients receive every attention 

 and comfort that their situation may require.* 

 There are sometimes one hundred and fifty 

 in the hospital, but the wards are capable 

 of containing more. When it is considered 

 that patients come to this hospital from a dis- 

 tance of two hundred miles, (that is, from the 

 Murrumbidgee country, and even beyond,) in- 

 cluding a large extent of district, a large build- 

 ing may have been thought requisite ; but the 

 more convenient and less expensive method 

 would have been, to have built two hospitals of 

 moderate size, one at Goulburn Plains, and the 

 other at Liverpool ; for it was a sad mistake to 

 compel an invalid to travel a distance of two 

 hundred miles for medical assistance ,• and affords 

 a facility for many to feign sickness, that they 

 might have a journey down the country to see 

 their friends, causing much inconvenience to the 

 settler, who has no other means of ascertaining 

 the man's complaint, but by taking him to this 

 distant hospital. 



* The patients are persons only under the employ of go- 

 vernment, or assigned servants of the settlers ; for the latter 

 the master pays a shilling daily for a month, or 'as many days 

 less as the man may remain in the hospital ; but should he 

 remain longer than a month, no further charge is made. 



