In his reply Dr Atkinson said that
le was unaware
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permission
required, and that the
offect of the concert was to
give pleasure to 52 (out of 71) patients who would
be able to attend, and to more general
promote a
-public interest in the welfare
of the hospital; and the
Answered the most obvious
objection by the statement that
the concert was to be
in a
given
new wing of the hospitat, which was isolated from the
rest
Ust, and had not get
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been used.
Be further stated that each
Conarts were common
London hospitate, and that he had attended such even in
wards adjacent to those
occu
cupied by patients.
of these were warks in which there were, or
were liable
to be, patients in a critical Condition
:tion, the proceeding appears
to me & have been a
verz
questionable one; and in any case the precedent did not seem to me as desirable of adoption