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can no longer be used, to anything like their
present extent, for cases of small-pox, should,
we think, become in the main fever hospitals.
And we think it probable that with the aid of
another hospital, which appears to be almost
indispensable for the east of London, they
would fully accommodate all the cases requiring
London treatment.
"By these arrangements cases of fever
would be adequately provided for.
"Of the 2,100 small-pox cases the mild,
and with them the convalescent cases, being
probably more than three quarters of the whole,
should be provided for in two or three more
country hospitals.
"The remainder, being the severe cases
during their acute stage, must be provided for
in or within easy reach of London.
" For these 400 or 500 persons who, being
too ill to take a long land journey to the country
hospitals, but at the same time not too ill
to be removed from their immediate neighbourhood,
cannot or will not be properly isolated
by those in charge of them, we think, in the