Qy ★ • MTC.e M-G.ILL UNIVERSITY LIB RARY ACC. NO PATE MONTREAL GENERAL HOSPITAL. Exposure No. 1. THE SUPPRESSED REPORT AND THE LADY S13PEBINTENGEHT. At the Quarterly Meeting of the Board of governors of the Montreal General Hospital, held in *> ' ^ g u p. ment was laid before them, we are fast approaching another Quarterly Meeting, the writer presents — not exclusively to the ‘ th ’ \p, n . the public generally — matter in connection 'Mth treat General Hospital strange but true. , , To write the history of the interna wo, Ling ; of the Institution during the past two years would no J * a “a task, nor is it a matter of congratulation to dm ffi ia) Canada of ours an epoch of administrative abuse and omc despotism of which it i, to be le.ped in the JZ, nun fair play and truthfulness, is yet limited in its opeiatm , and confined even in “that system” to a bmited deg^ee, ! was thought the blight had fallen only on the Montreal Institution, owing to the importation o «'V> ^ it wi p (as regards Montreal, this is undoubtedly tr , jnsti- be seen hereafter the evil has appeared the Londo^ ^ tutions, even the guardian, fet. Thomas, is RP ^that existH uneasily in the hope of wafting away the plag ffndor his very nose. In Montreal the chances of re-concert- ing the General Hospital to the purposes for which it was formed, viz: An Institution that was incorporated especially r • ™ li ° f ^ >0 P oor » an( l ^ ar the better prevention of infectious and other diseases amongst the destitute, thereby decreasing the mortality of a populous and growing city, lending a helping hand to the poor citizen, and protecting the more fortunate and wealthy from epidemics, for which pur- pose subscriptions were given from time to time. The chances of re-conversion are not very great at present, the combina- tion is too strong- but the rotten part of the system that it supports must be exposed, and by frequent exposure its fate e eventually sealed. The public may regard with indifference for a time, but when once thoroughlj r aroused, it is not difficult to foretell the fate of the Pecksniffian adminis- tration so lately re-instated in the Montreal General Hospital. It will be fresh in the memory of most that at the last annual meeting of the Governors of the Montreal General Hospital, it was proposed that a sub-committee be formed, for the purpose of reporting, in their opinion, the best means of keeping the revenue and expenditure on a more equal footing than then existed. A committee was appointed consisting of th e following gentlemen :— C. J. Brydges, T. M. Bryson, Chas. Alexander, and John Plimsoll, Esquires. The committee sat repeatedly, their investigations being lengtlw, entailing con- siderable labor, and sacrifice of valuable time; their report was published and adopted at the quarterly meeting of tovernors, held in August last ; afterwards the report was suppressed and became a thing of the past; its failure was owing partly because the committee were misled as to the terms of Miss Machin’s engagement, being under the im- pression that she was engaged for two years, the actual terms ot the engagement were not known, and are not known now to the Committee, and partly because in that part of the report relating to the dismissal of Miss Machin, perhaps better known ot late as “Lady Superintendent,” they glossed it over by paying a high compliment to her ability, and alleging that her services were no longer required, as the formation of a training school had been abandoned, &c., &c. The writer be- leves that the committee in adopting the above course were actuated by generous impulses, making her dismissal appa- lently due to the training school scheme, and not to what was well known to themselves and the house at large, her ignor- ant and imperious conduct to the officers and cmyloyees of the Institution, her direct opposition to the Committee, her malicious persecution, as invariably displayed towards those emp ovees who had sufficient self-respect to resist the tyran- nical conduct of a woman whose cruel' and unhoh- reign was white-washed over by the abominably used word discipline; this may appear very strong language to use in connection with the idol of that portion of the Medical Board who took such wonderful interest in the Institution, that they did not 3 « every „ur» H. U» “the Church of tegitl'pSl beyond «he po»- tained therein are such tha l ev idence, unquestionable bility of a doubt, by testimo y ton wiU afterwards be and “overwhelming. Ai uLlecn said here to shew the «“ S Su ^iufendent took »J“*X„b e r of the Sd dil, iu*•' \v Rng' Hall mmiMoMi I ■ ... . - • ••« ■ * j [^:jK£H»K iiipiiijlll £-:‘v * k^nl'A-a- ,-iv lISSs