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Excerpt from Hand-Book for Hospital Visitors
If any argument were heeded to justify the wis dom of the State Charities Aid Association in ap pointing mixed committees, or to prove that the ad ministration Of hospitals and consequently their construction - for one point hangs by the other - are matters for housekeepers to consider as well as busi ness men, it would be found in the striking words of Mr. Simon, medical officer Of the Privy Council of Great Britain, in his sixth report That which makes the healthiest house makes likewise the healthiest hospital; the same fastidious and univer sal cleanliness, the same never-ceasing vigilance against the thousand forms in which dirt may dis guise itself in air, in soil and water, in walls and ?oors and ceilings, in dress and bedding and furni ture, in pots and pans and pails, in sinks and drains and dust-bins it is but the same principle of man agement, but with immeasurably greater vigilance and skill; for the establishment which has to be kept in such exquisite perfection of cleanliness is an establishment which never rests from fouling itself nor are there any products of its foulness, not even the least Odorous of such products, which ought not to be regarded as poisons.
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