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fortunate companions is greatly facilitated by
the admirable organization of the Ambulance
Department of the Metropolitan Asylums
Board, which so far as my experience in the
City of London goes, does its best to meet
the requirements of the Public Health Department
with efficiency and alacrity.
From time to time, however, and notably
within the last few weeks, the demand for
this assistance all over the Metropolis has
over-reached the supply, and cases of a highly
infectious nature had, perforce, to remain at
home under great disadvantages qua medical
aid and nursing, albeit both may be, and often
are, of the best available kind.
The degree of risk to the public health thus
resulting is incalculable, seeing that each such
case may prove to be a focus of contagion,
the area of which cannot be systematically
defined, but which we know is always enlarging
in obedience to the law which governs
the diffusion of gaseous bodies.
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