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Thames, at Winchmore Hill, the Northern Convalescent
Hospital, with close on 1,000 beds. In addition to the new
hospitals on new sites, previously existing accommodation has
been extended and improved by the more or less complete
reconstruction, with additions, of most of the older hospitals.
Small-pox Hospital Accommodation.—As regards accommodation
for small-pox, the Managers have not, as yet,
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 utilised for about 750 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, a new site, of
some three hundred acres, which, (with considerable additions
of intervening land connecting the estate with the Hospital
Ships) the Managers have acquired, and on which they
propose to build a permanent hospital for acute cases of
small-pox, which, doubtless, will, in course of time, supersede
the Hospital Ships.
Summary.—I" ain indebted to Mr. Duncombe Mann,
the Clerk to the Metropolitan Asylums Board, for the subjoined
tabular statement of the existing, and intended accommodation
for various classes of the infectious sick : it cannot
fail to be read with interest.