. The New England magazine. had all the pa-tients they wanted. Occasionallywhen the rector meets patient No. Ithe latter says to him with consider-able exultation, Im the man whoopened your hospital. There is another neighborhoodwhere the generosity of people wentfar in advance of local needs. Theygot their hospital ready, but havefound thus far very small demand forits accommodations. The probabilityis that when they overcome theprejudices of uneducated peopleagainst hospital treatment, they will impossible to have a hospital in asmall place, unless perchance somewealthy person provided a goo

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. The New England magazine. had all the pa-tients they wanted. Occasionallywhen the rector meets patient No. Ithe latter says to him with consider-able exultation, Im the man whoopened your hospital. There is another neighborhoodwhere the generosity of people wentfar in advance of local needs. Theygot their hospital ready, but havefound thus far very small demand forits accommodations. The probabilityis that when they overcome theprejudices of uneducated peopleagainst hospital treatment, they will impossible to have a hospital in asmall place, unless perchance somewealthy person provided a good roundsum of money to erect the buildingsand to endow the work. The first de-parture was the Cottage Hospital sys-tem in England, which speedilybecame quite popular there, and wasimitated to some extent in this coun-try. This new system, under thegeneral name of the Cottage Hos-pital, varied from fitting up a smallbuilding accommodating five or tento larger structures with as many astwenty-five beds. Some of these ex- s~-f. im^:, $£% •t\- m ^,,-.;

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