Voluntary Hospitals and Poor Law Infirmaries
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the Guild of Pharmacists on " The Future of the Voluntary and Municipal Hospitals." Considerations of space admit only of our giving such passages as bear immediately upon the important question of the relief of hospital pressure by utilising vacant beds in the Poor-Law Infirmaries. Mr. Morris began by pointing out that, although the Waiting List at the London now stands at 865, at the Whitechapel Infirmary opposite there are scores of empty beds.
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