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for business purposes only, in which the
exigencies of trade exact every inch of space
not actually required for the accommodation of
assistants and caretakers, which the heads of
commercial establishments find it their interest
on economical grounds to feed and sleep, no
provision is made for isolating cases of disease.
In tenement houses and in business places
where no provision is made for the sick,
medical practitioners have thus to battle with
disease under every conceivable disadvantage
—limited space—absence of sanitary appliances
—imperfect ventilation—defective nursing—
worse attendance—and gloomy surroundings,
etc., etc., all of which accentuate the anxiety
and sense of responsibility attaching to their
ministration.
From an experience of the interior economies
of business premises in the City, extending to
nearly half a century, I am enabled to assert,
with some confidence, that in a vast majority of
instances in our large warehouses, banks, offices,
etc., etc., there is, with very few exceptions, an