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first place, that administrative blocks with a
few small wards attached to them might be
maintained within the precincts of the fever
hospitals, sufficient, in each hospital, for 30
or 40 small-pox patients; that the hospital
authorities should divide the metropolis into
hospital districts, assigning one to each hospital
; and that no hospital should receive
small-pox patients except from the district in
which it is situated.
"This qualification is required not only
because the patients will always be such as
must be sent to the nearest hospital, but also
to obviate, as far as the nature of the case
admits of it, the great and natural complaint
of those who are in the neighbourhood of large
small-pox hospitals, that the infection of the
rest of London is poured in upon them.
"It is evidently of paramount importance
that the areas of the small-pox wards as well
as their administration should be rigorously
separated from those of the fever hospitals,
aud further, that their construction should be
such as to reduce within the smallest limits the
chance of spreading infection. We fully