In_@ report concerning the best locality for the proposed hospital, Dr. Stanley states that three places have been specially considered: the Point, a site in the neighbourhood of Hongkew Park, and another near the Victoria Nursing Home and the Isolation Hospital.
As to the first, it is considered as being, perhaps, the best of the three in regard to the supply of fresh air, although the advantage in this respect is little better than that to be gained at Hongkew Park. However, there are considerations which more than counterbalanos the advantages of either of these country district sites. The firet is, that as admission to the hospital would be entirely voluntary, it would be necessary to place the hospital in such a position that patients would readily seck admission. It is as much to the public, ae to their own, advantage that they should do so.
Then there is the question of visiting patients, It would be not. altogether desirable that visitors to such a hospital should be numerous, but it is believed, doubt-lees upon good grounds, that patients would not readily' enter the hospital if visitors were for-hidden.
Treatment of Out-patients.
The sim of the hospital, Dr. Stanley continues, would be to isolate as many tubercular lung cases as possible under conditions of comfort and advantage; but there would also be needed a well-equipped out-patient department, far the treatment of patients who cannot afford to give up their work on account of families dependent upon them, and who could only attend the hospital at all on condition of its being easily accessible.
For these reasons, and for the additional reason, that the hospital with its out-patient department and dispensary would form the centre of a far-reaching preventive scheme, it is concluded that hospital should be as near as possible to the population which it hae to serve most. The unused portion of the site near the Isolation Hospital is recommended because it meets these conditions best. It is well laid out as a garden and affords ample room for open-air treatment under favourable conditions, while a resident doctor and nurses are close at hand. Though meat the Isol Hospital, it would be an entirely separate institution, and would have no more direct communication with it than the Nursing Home hae.
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