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    NOTICES OF BOOKS. 417

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    Notes On Hospitals. By Florence Nighting...

    theless dea that th - t rate shoul to in lay d hosp do down the ital such sick s as no compared princi harm p , le it . " with is It quite that was necessary indeed the the never hi sic g k h -

    elsewherewhich first led Miss Nightingale to examine among into the defects of , such institutions , and lay before the Social t Science

    Association , a paper , which was the germ of the presenvolume , enlarged nominall , y t reprin o be in t , t bu t t , a actuall new t work y t re . -written the defec and tin so exis greatl t y

    hos p itals firs and t par the t of evils he resulting book rea ther s efrom , it appearin s g from ing an examination of the statistics concerninthe 106 principal

    hosp hosp i tals tals of of London London , , on tha A t pril the 8 number th , 1861 of , was g inma 4214 tes , while the the 24 all collectivel

    number of deaths which took place in them y during that same year of 1861 , amoun bed ted in to each 3828 , being tablish

    men s ufferer t t becoming ty of 90 in , some ere cent the of , year t nearl hem ends y taken every , a dea individuall th-bed to the som es dea e poor th- - y

    rate is so ; nay enormous , that every bed , yields a death once , in about nine monthsThe patients who e this ital misfortune

    are are su no fficien t exempt tl . manifes from certain t to the secondary carefu escap l observer ones , the cap who effec " t insensibl s of which y

    malaise allies toge wi t th her y res seness tlessness of w , ards languor defec , feverishness tive ven , tilat , and general fective

    un struc til t it ure _, is , bad impossible architec to ture resist , and the , adminis conviction trative that arrangemen the , sick are ts ,

    suffering from something quite other than the disease inscribed on their bed-ticket . " defects in the

    hosp After itals unreservedl and their y arrangements stating at once that that to such it clear is evils to her are chiefly to

    meeting be attribu the ted objection , the Authoress that it is proceeds rather due to " contag ground ion " by u infection " that diseases are so often produced in these

    establishments cation of ; disease affirming from that one of contagion to —im another plying * the b communi means of - y

    person scientific contact—th enquiry ere is , no and proof addu such cing the as woul testimony d be admitted of Dr . Adams in any

    that even with regard to the plague , popularly held to be preeminently contagious , " nearly all the all medical the most authorities intelli who of

    had to deal with it , and certainly gent specific them , virus held but that in the plague was of communicated the atmosphere not around by any the

    acting sick being throug contaminated , the consequence air , by not putrid by effluvia contagion ; " . in As fact , an by infe infection ctious , easilbe

    produced state of the by air confining , so virulent a number as to of des perfectl troy life y , health may y persons y together in a very limited space , it is nothing extraordinary

    Notices Of Books. 417

    NOTICES OF BOOKS . 417

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1864, page 417, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021864/page/57/