The Removel of Bethlem Hospital

a change of site might help to free the hospital of a heavy deficit. More than half its patients were last year treated free of all charge; others paid only relatively small amounts. Nor are the arrangements for the nurses altogether adequate, and where work is so trying and calls for so much skill and patience it is only fair that the staff should be made as comfortable as modern convenience can compass. Bethlem is intended for curable persons, and it receives outpatients as well as in-patients, and for the latter a convalescent home in the country is provided. Everything possible has been done to bring the hospital up to date, but it would appear that the limit of what can be accomplished has now been reached. In the interest of its out-patients it would seem desirable that the