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of the ground-floor, by gratings similar to 

 those in the entries of the second and 

 third stories. This could easily be done, 

 by removing the boards covering the 

 openings that appear to have been ori- 

 ginally left. Though 1 have before re- 

 marked that this part of the hospital is un- 

 commonly well ventilated, yet these al- 

 terations and additions would, I think, 

 render the ventilation quite perfect. 



5th. 1 would recommend that warm, 

 cold, and vapour baths be constructed in 

 some convenient part of the east building, 

 on the first floor, to be appropriated ex- 

 clusively to the use of the patients of that 

 part of the hospital, and such private pa- 

 tients (not maniacs) as inhabit the large 

 rooms in the west building. (These are 

 now erected.) 



6th, That two small buildings be erect- 

 ed, about twelve or fourteen feet square, 

 and 2 stories high, at the distance of about 

 fifteen feet from the north end of the east 

 and west wings, and communicating with 

 each story of these wings by means of a 

 covered corridor. Or, should this plan be 

 found inconvenient, such buildings might 

 be erected on any part of the north side 

 of the hospital, that an architect should 

 deem most proper. 



7th. That a building, containing conve- 

 nient dissecting rooms, be erected in 

 some part of the area of the hospital, re- 

 mote as possible from the main buildings, 

 for the purpose of examining and dissect- 

 ing dead bodies. No hospital is complete 

 without such a building. 



8th. That the American chimney-place 

 stove be erected in the managers' room, 

 the library-room, and as many of the 

 wards as convenient. The first cost of 

 these stoves would be considerable, but 

 their erection would result in an annual 

 saving of three-fourths of the quantity of 

 fuel usually consumed in open fire-places. 



9th. That a concise and well written ac- 

 count of the hospital be printed in small 

 pamphlets of four or five pages, and be 

 sold by the gate-keeper for three-pence 

 each, to such strangers as visit the hospi- 

 tal, who may be disposed to purchase 

 them. Scarcely any person visits an in- 

 stitution of this kind, who would not will- 

 ingly give three-pence for an account of 

 it ; and the annual amount of the sale of 

 such pamphlets at the gate would, I am 

 persuaded, be considerable. The per- 

 quisite for showing the great hall of 

 Greenwich hospital to strangers is one 

 shilling, three-pence of which goes to the 

 person who exhibits it. The remaining 

 nine-pences make an annual revenue, 



which supports, clothes, and educates, 

 twenty boys, the sons of distressed sea- 

 men. I would propose that the fund 

 arising from the sale of such description 

 of the hospital be appropriated toward 

 the support of an additional number of 

 paupers in the institution. 



10th. That at some future day, when 

 the finances of the hospital will admit of 

 it, and their vacant lots shall be exempt- 

 ed from the present unjust taxes to which 

 they are subjected, a lunatic asylum be 

 erected on such one of the vacant lots as 

 may be deemed best situated for the pur- 

 pose ; and that all that portion of the pre- 

 sent building now divided into cells be 

 converted into wards for the sick. In fact, 

 the legislature of this state should grant 

 an adequate sum of money for this pur- 

 pose, and enable tiie contributors to the 

 institution to commence such an asylum 

 immediately. 



lith. That the resident physician be 

 invested with more authority and control 

 over the general economy of the house- 

 hold than he now has. His consequence 

 in that institution, considering the im- 

 portant station he fills, is much too incon- 

 siderable. 



12th. That as the attending physicians 

 and surgeons of the hospital serve gratui- 

 tously, the hard duty they are now oblig- 

 ed to perform, in visiting all patients pre- 

 viously to their being admitted into the 

 house, who are not able to call on them, 

 be, under certain circumstances, dispens- 

 ed with ; and that in such cases the 

 resident physician's certificate for admis- 

 sion shall be deemed sufficient and satis- 

 factory. 



13th. That the bedsteads be all raised at 

 least six or eight inches, and that only 

 twenty-four be arranged in each long 

 ward ; and six in each of the wards of the 

 east and west wings. 



HOT-house. This convenience is pro- 

 ductive of many articles at the tables of 

 the rich and luxurioHS, and may be said 

 to constitute the chief pride of many gar- 

 deners, and indeed of many persons in the 

 highest circles of society. Illiberal per- 

 sons are, however, prone to decry those 

 productions, which do not ordinarily enter 

 within their own use and consumption, 

 and it is not unusual to hear many exe- 

 crations uttered against hot-houses, tem- 

 ples, &c. and other edifices, which orna- 

 ment the gardens and pleasure grounds 

 of the aflfluent, under the idea that the 

 money so expended is thrown away. But 

 when we consider how many families are 

 maintained by the labour required, either 



