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would have to be created when the next emergency
occurred. The comparatively permanent
fever establishments, however, will supply
something in the nature of a cadre, which it
will be comparatively easy to expand by the
temporary engagement of fresh officers when
the small-pox visitation arrives, and to reduce
when it is passed.
"With regard to matters of detail we
have already recommended that the hospital
authorities should have the entire control of
the ambulances, by which all other modes of
conveyance should be as far as possible superseded;
that the regulations intended to prevent
the communication of infection by visitors
should be strictly enforced; that the entrance
appropriated to the sick should be entirely
separate from that of the tradesmen, contractors,
and others; that letters should be carefully
disinfected; that the nurses and attendants
should not be permitted to leave the hospital
except at longer intervals, and for proportionately
longer periods; that great care should
be taken respecting the exposure of infected
clothes or bedding; and that the greatest