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lieve that contrivances for this purpose might
be devised, and we again call special attention
to the evidence on this head which has been
furnished to us by Dr. Burdon Sanderson.
This will provide for those cases which
cannot be sent down the Thames. But we
concur with Sir W. Jenner and Sir E. Currie in
thinking that others—and in years of severe
epidemic a larger number—might be sent down
the river to hospitals in isolated situations on
its banks, or if this is found impracticable, to
floating hospitals on the river itself. For this
opinion we have already given our reasons.
"It is plain that under these circumstances
small-pox or fever hospitals supported by
parishes or unions, like those at Finchley and
Plaistow, will become superfluous and they will
probably become disused unless either of them
should prove available as hospitals of the
Asylums Board. Concerning hospitals supported
wholly or in part by charity it was not
within our duty to inquire, except in so far as
facts observed in them might help to elucidate
the questions put before us. It seems only
right to record that we received evidence of