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small-pox and fever Hospitals had not been
published. This report has since then been brought
under the notice of the Vestry, and I doubt not that
many of you have made yourselves masters of the
conclusions at which the Commission arrived. It
was fully admitted by them that the large Asylum
Hospitals in London had been proved to be in some
way or the other centres of contagion, and sources
of danger to the neighbourhoods in which they were
placed; and, while acknowledging (as doubtless
most persons will allow) the need of Hospitals for
the reception of small-pox, and therefore recommending
the maintenance of such Institutions, they
made a series of practical recommendations with
the object both of securing efficiency and minimising
danger. These recommendations are so important,
and I think judicious, that I venture to reproduce
them here:—
"And now it will be convenient to preface
our further recommendations by a recapitulation
of those we have already made.
"We are of opinion that the provision of
hospital accommodation for persons suffering
from infectious disease in the metropolitan districts
should be entirely disconnected from the