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Claim* Of The Hopklni.He$sr$. Edltort: May the humble cipres-slons of a taipayer and a proud citlsen of the city of Baltimore find room In your Instructive paper In opposition to those few who are opposed to the granting of $50,000 for a few years by our Legislature to help our noble Institution, the Johns Hopkins Hospital and University?With great sorrow do T see bow some opulent men are fighting such a small contribution to an Institution which has done so much for the alleviation of the suffering, for the advancement of science and the blessing of a large community.How ridiculous Is the suggestion to curtail the salaries of the professors, whichwould entail the driving away of such eminent professors as Halstead, Woods. Kelly, Rowland, etc., who could not be replaced by cheap men without lowering the standard of efficiency 1 iSome years since I was confined in the Vienna Allgemelnen Hospital (a celebrated European Institution) with a fractured limb, and only two years since was operated on at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, and am, therefore, competent to compare the efficiency of the two Institutions, which rsaliy do not stand comparison. Tbs ons Is a stats Institution, which cost the Government a vary large amount of money; the other, our Johns Hopkins, Is a private Institution (donated out of tho purest feeling of humanity and wrecked by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad) and haa cost the city or State so far but n very insignificant amount of money.In the Vienne hospital tho principal practice is the cure of the afflicted at the lowest cost, whereas the motto of the Johns Hopkins Hospital la “Cure at all cost/*'aiwibio,
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