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Moreover, this is the kind of provision that is
recommended by the Local Government Board in their
circular on the subject issued in 1895. It is there stated that
for large villages, or for groups of villages, a small building
will suffice; or the requisite accommodation for (say)
four cases of infectious disease in a village away at a time
be got in fairly isolated and otherwise suitable four-room
or six-room cottage which has been acquired by the
Authority. This is the kind of accommodation I have
frequently recommended. But as the growth of the district
may be said to put it into the class Town, it would be
well to adopt the advice given under this heading, which
is to the effect that permanent provision should be made
to consist of not less than four rooms in two separate
pairs, each pair to receive the sufferers from one infectious
disease, men and women of course separately. For a
town the hospital provision ought to consist of wards
in one or more permanent buildings, with space enough
for the erection of other wards, temporary or permanent.
Considerations of ultimate economy make it wise to
have permanent buildings sufficient for somewhat more
than the average necessities of the place, so that recourse
to temporary extension may less often be necessary. In
any case it is well to make the administrative offices
somewhat in excess of the wants of the permanent wards;
because thus, at little additional cost, they will be ready
to serve when occasion comes for the wants of temporary
extensions.