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<p>accessible to the patients friends, who, without incommoding or being incommoded, <lb/> might see the while economy of it carried in under their eye, would <lb/> lose, it is to be hoped, a great part of those repelling terrors, which deprive of <lb/> the benefit of such institutions many objects, whom prejudice in league with <lb/> poverty, either debars <sic>all together</sic> from relief, or drives to seek it in much <lb/> less eligible shapes. Who knows but that the certainty of a medical attendance, <lb/> not occasional, short lived, or even precarious, as at present, but constant <lb/> and uninterrupted, might not render such a situation preferable even <lb/> to home, in the eyes of many persons who <del><gap/>deleted text</del> <hi rend="superscript">could</hi> afford to pay for it? And <lb/> that the erection of a building of this kind might turn to account <lb/> in the hands of some <sic>enterprizing</sic> practitioner?</p> | <p>accessible to the patients friends, who, without incommoding or being incommoded, <lb/> might see the while economy of it carried in under their eye, would <lb/> lose, it is to be hoped, a great part of those repelling terrors, which deprive of <lb/> the benefit of such institutions many objects, whom prejudice in league with <lb/> poverty, either debars <sic>all together</sic> from relief, or drives to seek it in much <lb/> less eligible shapes. Who knows but that the certainty of a medical attendance, <lb/> not occasional, short lived, or even precarious, as at present, but constant <lb/> and uninterrupted, might not render such a situation preferable even <lb/> to home, in the eyes of many persons who <del><gap/>deleted text</del> <hi rend="superscript">could</hi> afford to pay for it? And <lb/> that the erection of a building of this kind might turn to account <lb/> in the hands of some <sic>enterprizing</sic> practitioner?</p> | ||
<p> | <p>A <hi rend="underline">prison</hi>, as I observed in a former letter, includes an <lb/> Hospital. In Prisons on this construction, every cell may receive the <lb/> properties of an hospital, without undergoing any charge. The whole <lb/> prison would be perhaps a better Hospital than any building known <lb/> hitherto by that name. Yet<del>,</del> should it be thought of use, a few cells might <lb/> be appropriated to that purpose: and perhaps it may be thought advisable <lb/> that some causes of infection should be thrown out and lodged under another roof. </p> | ||
<p>But if infection in general must be sent to be <hi rend="underline">cured</hi> elsewhere, <lb/> there is no spot in which infection originating in negligence, can, <lb/> either in the <hi rend="underline">rise</hi> and <hi rend="underline">spread</hi> of it, <sic>meat</sic> with such obstacles as here. In what <lb/> <del><gap/></del> other <hi rend="superscript">instance</hi> as in this, will you see the interests of the Governor and the Governed </p> | |||
Letter XX. Hospitals.
accessible to the patients friends, who, without incommoding or being incommoded,
might see the while economy of it carried in under their eye, would
lose, it is to be hoped, a great part of those repelling terrors, which deprive of
the benefit of such institutions many objects, whom prejudice in league with
poverty, either debars all together from relief, or drives to seek it in much
less eligible shapes. Who knows but that the certainty of a medical attendance,
not occasional, short lived, or even precarious, as at present, but constant
and uninterrupted, might not render such a situation preferable even
to home, in the eyes of many persons who deleted text could afford to pay for it? And
that the erection of a building of this kind might turn to account
in the hands of some enterprizing practitioner?
A prison, as I observed in a former letter, includes an
Hospital. In Prisons on this construction, every cell may receive the
properties of an hospital, without undergoing any charge. The whole
prison would be perhaps a better Hospital than any building known
hitherto by that name. Yet, should it be thought of use, a few cells might
be appropriated to that purpose: and perhaps it may be thought advisable
that some causes of infection should be thrown out and lodged under another roof.
But if infection in general must be sent to be cured elsewhere,
there is no spot in which infection originating in negligence, can,
either in the rise and spread of it, meat with such obstacles as here. In what
other instance as in this, will you see the interests of the Governor and the Governed
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