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Letter XX. Hospitals.
accessible to the patients friends, who, without incommoding or being incommoded,
might see the while economy of it carried on 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 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 or 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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