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often as may be necessary, and beg that the alteration be not insisted upon. I recommend that their request in this matter be granted. I think that it is quite possible to maintain a satisfactory cleanliness even with the use of "meen tois". A few days after the meeting referred to, I caused all the "meen tois" in the hospital to be uncovered for an inspection, and had about thirty of the worst of them removed to the old mortuary to await disposal by the Director.
This inspection I propose to make weekly and by a systematic, slow weeding out of the worst shall soon have only really clean ones in use. Many of those at first withdrawn will require to be destroyed but I am told that when not so completely spoiled they can be broken up, and the wool washed, re-carded, mixed with a proportion of new wool and made up anew.
I have arranged that all clothing of patients shall be changed twice a week, on Wednesdays and Saturdays; that covers of "weed tois" shall all be changed on Saturdays; and that either clothing or bedding soiled by discharges shall be at once changed. I test that this has been done on Wednesdays by special examinations of patients here and there throughout the wards on that day; and on Saturdays, since the date of the meeting etc., the "meen tois" of which I spoke, I cause the clean personal clothing and the clean "meen toi" cover for each bed to be laid out on the bed folded, beside the uncovered "meen toi" for my inspection during my morning visit, before being used.
I have not urged the improvement of the arrange-