Author, U: Edinburgh Medical Journal, Vol. 31

Excerpt from Edinburgh Medical Journal, Vol. 31: Comprising the Monthly Journal of Medicine and the Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal; Part II., January to June 1886

In no city in the world has the system of notification had a fairer trial or been more successful. The first result of the system was to open the eyes of the citizens and the profession to the enormous amount of preventi ble disease that lay simmering in our midst, the existence of which was only too tardily and partially revealed by the mortality returns; and, second, to couvrues our Town Council of the utter insufficiency of the accommodation pro vided in Edinburgh for the isolation and treatment of infectious disease. This led to instant action on the part of the authorities; and at an expense of fully Edinburgh is now provided with a satisfactory infectious hospital, which will be available as an important adjunct to our Medical School, by affording our students and young practitioners an opportunity of studying, under favourable circumstances, those important diseases, - the treatment of which constitutes, as we all know, such a large part of ordinary medical practice.

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