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The number of cases removed to the Hospitals does not,
of course, include all those removed under the advice of
medical men in the Parish, but only those in which the
Sanitary Inspector was instrumental in causing the removal.
It is extremely important that cases of contagious fevers
should be removed to Fever Hospitals, and not be left to
become centres of infection in the Parish, and so I am glad
to have this opportunity of making more widely known the
arrangements made by the London Fever Hospital, Liverpool
Road, Islington, for the accommodation of patients of
various classes. I quote from a notice lately issued by the
Committee of that Hospital:—
"The Metropolitan Fever Asylums having now relieved
this Hospital of the responsibility of taking charge of the
very poor, the attention of the Committee has been given to
the prevention of the spread of contagious fever, by rendering
the Hospital available for the reception and treatment
of cases of fever occurring in families in good circumstances,
or in schools, hotels, among the employes of large commercial
houses, &c., while continuing to offer its benefits to the
working classes not receiving Parish relief. The arrangements
they have adopted for the present are as follow: (1)
Working men or their families are admitted at once without
payment and without letter of recommendation, on the production
of a certificate from a medical man stating that
they are suffering from contagious fever, and are not in
receipt of Parish relief or otherwise proper cases for the
Metropolitan Fever Asylums. (2) Domestic servants, employes
in houses of business, and others similarly situated,
who are sent to the Hospital for the convenience of employers,
will be admitted into the General Wards on the
recommendation of a Governor or Annual Subscriber of one
guinea, or, as heretofore, on payment of two guineas on