We believe the attention of the Hospital Trustees has lately been called to a very serious inconvenience, which results from the want of accommodation in Shanghai for Innatics. Every now and then, a Innatic from one of the British mon-of-war in these waters, or from some other source, is consigned to Her Majesty's Consul with a request that be may be confined, either indefinitely or pending his transmission to Europe and as the Consular gaol is the only available place, thither the unfortunate sufferers have to be marched. Butthe inconvenience of such a course is so obvious that we are not surprised to hear the Hospital Trastees have been consulted with a view to the provision if possible of more suitable accommodation. It is unfair, in the first place, to the patients that they should be placed in the position of criminals, and subjected to the depressing and
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