effective that a sick person, who is punctual to time, has never to
wait.

The medical officers attached to the hospital in our model city are
allowed to hold but one appointment at the same time, and that for a
limited period. Thus every medical man in the city obtains the equal
advantage of hospital practice, and the value of the best medical and
surgical skill is fairly equalised through the whole community.

In addition to the hospital building is a separate block, furnished
with wards, constructed in the same way as the general wards, for the
reception of children suffering from any of the infectious diseases.
These wards are so planned that the people, generally, send sick
members of their own family into them for treatment, and pay for the
privilege.

Supplementary to the hospital are certain other institutions of a
kindred character. To check the terrible course of infantile mortality
of other large cities,--the 76 in the 1,000 of mortality under five
years of age, homes for little children are abundant. In these the
destitute young are carefully tended by intelligent nurses; so that
mothers, while following their daily callings, are enabled to leave
their children under efficient care.

In a city from which that grand source of wild mirth, hopeless sorrow
and confirmed madness, alcohol, has been expelled, it could hardly be
expected that much insanity would be found. The few who are insane are
placed in houses licensed as asylums, but not different in appearance
to other houses in the city. Here the insane live, in small
communities, under proper medical supervision, with their own gardens