The Hospital's Paying Guest

development of the contributory system, and a good deal was heard of it at the exceedingly interesting and remarkably well-organised Conference of the Hospitals Association at Sheffield. It came before the Conference in a very definite form in papers read by two distinguished authorities, Sir Napier Burnett and Mr. H. J. Waring, each of whom laid stress upon the change which is taking place in the relation of the Voluntary Hospitals to the public, especially as regards the widening of the areas from which the paying patient is derived. Thus the most novel portion of the valuable and constructive Paper on '