PLAGUE HOSPITAL.
TO TEE EDITOR. Sir, —It seems very extraordinary that the small pox hospital at Bromley, having built so many years ago for an disease, cannot now be used for a plague - v'" hospital, I know the Bromley district well, . and however closely populated its inhabitants may think it, there is no comparison in that respect with the district round the , Christchurch Hospital. Neither is the' Bromley School much nearer to the hospital l there than the West Christchurch School is to the hospital at Christchurch. If the idea ' ■ were a central point from which to spread the. plague, the Christchurch Hospital would of course be host. People injured--or sick come, there from all parts of the 'ccpitw, foe I r treatment, and when, convalescent go back with the chance .of taking whatever infections disease may be about with them.- Besides, people who !are fanciful fwm- the weak•hess!which illness invariably leaves,-would' A be more likely subjects for plague, infeoticn than the healthy residents-of Bromley. I£ the greatest good of the greatest number is ' •the point to be aimed at there is little doubt which ought to be decided on. D-r Symes deserves credit for insisting upon an answe® from the Hospital Board. —I am, etc., ' S.G.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume CIII, Issue 12243, 2 July 1900, Page 6
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