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MEMORANDUM.
The present seems an appropriate time to call
the attention of those concerned to the delay
recently experienced in the removal from their
homes of persons suffering from infectious
diseases.
This difficulty has arisen in consequence of
the congested state of the Hospitals provided
by the Metropolitan Asylums Board.
In establishments specially constructed for
the treatment of cases of a contagious character,
it will be readily understood that not only can
medical aid and skilled nursing be more effectually
and scientifically obtained, but the public
is protected and epidemics prevented by the
patient being retained under observation during
the stage of convalescence, and until all danger
of communicating infection to the home circle
has passed away.
Under ordinary circumstances the means
of separating sick persons from their more