. Public health and preventive medicine. NO AT FLOOR IE /£(. Fig. Fig. 1S3. twenty persons should be accommodated on one acre of land. The disadvantagesof such temporary hospitals are that, though cheap and easily erected, theyare less comfortable, more difficult to ventilate and to regulate as regards heat HOSPITALS 409 and cold, less durable, and less easy to disinfect in most cases, while they havenot the perfect appliances for preventing communicable disease. An ordinaryisolation hospital lias no great tendency to spread disease, and it is notablethat no excess of cases are admitted
. Public health and preventive medicine. NO AT FLOOR IE /£(. Fig. Fig. 1S3. twenty persons should be accommodated on one acre of land. The disadvantagesof such temporary hospitals are that, though cheap and easily erected, theyare less comfortable, more difficult to ventilate and to regulate as regards heat HOSPITALS 409 and cold, less durable, and less easy to disinfect in most cases, while they havenot the perfect appliances for preventing communicable disease. An ordinaryisolation hospital lias no great tendency to spread disease, and it is notablethat no excess of cases are admitted into the present Edinburgh City Hospitalfrom the immediately surrounding houses ; but with hospitals to which small-pox is admitted there is great danger of dissemination, and, consequently,smallpox hospitals must lie remote from any populous neighbourhood. Witha view of lessening the risk of infection, the Local Government Board havesuggested that the local authority should not contemplate the erection of asmallpox hospital—(1) Upon any site where it would have wi
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