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same ratepayers' pockets. Suppose that the Vestries were called
upon to pay for the patients whom, as a matter of convenience
and to avoid delay, they remove to hospital —the patients being
the same people, whom otherwise the Guardians would remove—
is it conceivable that they, as Sanitary Authorities, having
medical advisers, would throw any difficulty in the way of
isolation of the sick, by raising question of payment? It is now
getting to be known throughout the country generally, that