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spared much of the anxiety of having the sick one in his home, 

 where domestic work must be continued. For the mildly con- 

 tagious diseases, too, the community shares the reUef that 

 comes of the segregation. 



The hospital idea is every where. The hospital tent, the 

 hospital ship, and even the hospital cruise into the arctic circle 

 for the benefit of the tuberculous sufferer, are accepted to-day 

 without a thought of question. It is only from the inner circle 

 of the hospital managerial circle that one occasionally hears 

 a murmur of disaffection. 



One of these, recently recounting his experiences in the 

 work, recalls with some bitterness that in all the category of 

 hospital work of the country so little of system has been evolv- 

 ed for the common good of the institution. Among the super- 

 intendents whom he knows, for instance, he recalls a few phy- 

 sicians, a ward boss, an ex-newspaper reporter, a china factory 

 hand, various clerks, and an assortment of clergymen. More 

 business methods in an institution where business methods 

 should pay big dividends is his cry, even to the extent of taking 

 the hospital from the medical man and giving it over to the 

 layman. 



