To the Editor:
—Relative to the editorial comment in The Journal, Jan. 4, 1919, p. 46, I believe that the presentation of the facts regarding the Los Angeles County Hospital is so worded as to give a wrong impression of the conditions that exist in this institution. The civil service examinations for interns for the Los Angeles County Hospital are held in San Francisco, Los Angeles, St. Louis, Chicago, and one or two other cities. According to the ranks of the men who take the examinations, the civil service compiles a list. When vacancies occur, the next highest man is called on to see whether he will accept the position.When osteopaths have been admitted as interns, it simply means that these men took the civil service examinations, and that in due time when vacancies occurred, their names were reached and the positions had to be offered to them. This