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hospitals on new sites, previously existing accommodation
has been extended and improved by the more or less complete
reconstruction, with additions, of some of the older
hospitals.
Small-pox Hospital Accommodation.— As regards
accommodation for small-pox, the Managers have not hitherto
provided anything like the amount recommended by the
Royal Commission in 1882, viz., 2,700 beds. The Hospital
Ships at Long Reach, on the Thames, furnish 300 beds for
acute cases; whilst for mixed cases there is accommodation
for about 1,200 patients at the Gore Farm Hospital, which, at
the present time, is being utilized for scarlet fever convalescents.
The accommodation on this site could be materially
increased, in case of emergency, by the erection of temporary
buildings, as also at the Joyce-green estate.
summary.— I am indebted to Mr. T. Duncombe Mann,
Clerk to the Asylums Board, for the subjoined statement of
existing and projected accommodation for various classes of
the infectious sick : it cannot fail to be read with interest.