A DISTRICT HOSPITAL : ITS CONSTRUCTION AND COST. 1 1 1 



Miscellaneous. 

 (Names of Donors are in Italics.) 



Hutchinson, Francis B., M.R.C.S.E., L.R.C.P., Edin.— 

 Anniversary Address delivered by the President to 

 the Members of the Wellington Philosophical Society 

 at the opening meeting of the Session 1887-88. The Author. 



Sprat, Thomas, D.D., late Lord Bishop of Rochester. — The 

 History of the Royal Society of London, for the 

 Improving of Natural Knowledge. The Fourth 

 Edition, 4to, London, 1734. Mrs. Helenus Scott. 



** Australian Public Opinion," Vol. I., No. 3, 30 July, 1887. 



The Publishers, Sydney. 

 " Be Indische Mercuur," Vol. X., No. 15, 9 April, 1887. 



The Publishers, Amsterdam. 

 <( Industrial Review," New Series, No. 30, 28 May, 1887. 



The Publishers, London. 

 <{ Le National," 2me Serie, No. 6620, 13 Mai, 1887. The Publishers, Paris. 

 " The Chemist and Druggist of Australasia," Vol. II., No. 7, 



1 July, 1887. The Editor, Melbourne. 



"The Illustrated Sydney News," Vol. XXIV.. No. 7, 15 July, 



1887. The Proprietors, Sydney. 



«* The Publisher," No. 10, 18 July, 1887. The Publishers, Sydney. 



A DISTRICT HOSPITAL: ITS CONSTRUCTION AND 



COST. WITH A DESCRIPTION OF A NEW METHOD 



OF CONSTRUCTING IRON BUILDINGS. 



By J. Ashburton Thompson, M.D., Brux., San. Sci. Cert., Camb. 

 Chief Medical Inspector of the Board of Health of N.S.W. 



[Read before the Sanitary Section of the Royal Society, N.S.W. , 12 July, 1887.'] 



You are aware that among the multifarious functions of the 

 Health Department is reckoned that of examining plans for 

 proposed Country or District Hospitals in aid of which a subsidy 

 of the public money is asked. The object of such supervision is, 

 of course, to secure a reasonably wise and reasonably economical 

 expenditure of the monies granted and subscribed. The intention 

 is good, and it would be useful if means of practically effecting 

 it were provided ; but, for reasons into which I need not go, the 

 power of the Department to cause alteration to be made in 



