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admission. (3) For such patients as require isolation and
better accommodation than that offered by the General
Wards, eight large rooms have been prepared and furnished
with every requisite for comfort, in which a single patient,
or two children of the same family or from the same school,
can be received. The payment for one of these rooms,
with the attendance of an experienced nurse, and the care
of the resident medical officer and physicians, and including
food and medicines, has been fixed at three guineas per
week. If desired, cases admitted into the Private Wards
may be attended by the family medical attendant.''
I am glad to be able to report also that increased accommodation
for the temporary reception of the dead has been
and is now being provided, so that the cases in which
people sleep in the same room with a dead body will be
diminished,—and this in two different parts of the Parish,
and in localities inspected and approved of by me. One of
these mortuaries is in an old vault under St. Mark's Church,
near to Grosvenor-square, and the other adjoins St. John's
Church, Wilton-road, South Belgravia.
Being consulted as to the merits of the proposed site of
the new Belgrave Hospital for Children, by the Committee
of that hospital, the site in question being a plot of land
facing the Battersea Suspension-bridge, and on the west
side of the basin of the Grosvenor Canal, I advised them
that the openness of the site made it an advantageous one,
in spite of its proximity to the basin of the Grosvenor
Canal (where a quantity of mud is left exposed at each
tide, and down which the barges convey the dust, &c., from
the Parish) and to the new pumping station in connexion
with the Metropolitan system of sewers.
On account of a notice, which appeared in the Times
newspaper, that St. George's Hospital would "be closed, on