art of the hospital, his offence would
MC
light
one, and according to
English Law would be punishable
for manslaughter.
As
The same rule would
apply also to the removal of the dangerously
ill, if their death
was
hastened thereby.
Petitioners have read this pro-
clamation with a good deal of dismay.
The
command not to
remove the dying
out of the hospital they acknowledge
to be excellent, but petitioners
have
removed the dying
out of the
hospital, though they have now and
then removed them into other rooms.
The
reason
is that
this Worship's orders to separate the two, the living should be removed from the dying. Petitioners
would humbly submit that the better plan is to remove the dying from the living. For instance if there
are several patients
in a
room,
and
one of them becomes dangerously
ill, therefore, all the other patients who
are
not
dangerously
ill are
removed, perhaps
and
some of them will be made dangerously ill
by the removal, and then another removal will have to take place,
and thus
another removal will involve
further difficulties.
Petitioners therefore will find it
very difficult
to
carry
out this rule,
and
they fear that when this Worship next makes his inspection, there will