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Letter XX. Hospitals.
The separation of the cells might be in part continued, either for
comfort or for decency. Curtains instead of grating, would give the patient, when thought
fit, the option of being seen. Partitions of greater solidity and extent, might
divide the fabric into different wards; confining infection, adapting themselves to
the varieties of disease, and affording upon occasion diversities of temperature.
In hot weather to save the room from being heated, and the patients
from being incommoded, by the sun, shades, or awnings might secure
the windows toward the South.
I do not mean to entertain you here with a system of physick</sic,
or a treatment upon airs. But a word or two on this subject you must permit
me. Would the <sic>cielings of the cell be high enough? Is the plan of construction
sufficiently favourable to ventilation? — I have not the good fortune to have
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