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4. Separation of Hospital treatment from all connexion
with parochial relief; or, in other words:—
(a) Abolition of distinction of pauper and non-
pauper in respect of the treatment of
infectious disease.
(b) Free hospital treatment of infectious disease.
5. Paying wards for those who desire special or separate
accommodation.
6. Provision of additional Hospitals in London, with
skeleton staff of doctors, nurses, and other officers,
capable of extension, so as to cope with all emergencies.
7. Provisions of Hospitals in the country for removable
cases of small-pox, and for the reception of convalescent
hospital-treated cases of other infectious
diseases.
8. Transference of Vaccination to the Hospital, or Central
Sanitary Authority.
Parliamentary sanction has yet to be obtained for giving
legal effect to the greater number of the above recommendations;
some of them, however, are already carried out in practice. The
principle of the main recommendation, moreover, that which may
be said to be at the root of nearly all of the others—to wit, compulsory
notification, has, as before stated, found expression in
numerous Local Acts, and has been approved by the authorities
who have the best right to be heard on the subject. The time,
therefore, must surely be at hand when success shall crown the
labours of years, and give to the public the additional security
afforded by the disclosure of infectious disease with all its
attendant results.