13 NOVEMBER 1852, Page 11

The accident at Chelsea Hospital is the result of ineffectual

arrange- ments. It is not the hat of the series. Scaffolds are multiplying of the hastiest construction, in the most hazardous quarters. When official arrangements prove so fatally ineffective, who vouches for these private constructions ? Are they all legal ? What will be the practical conse- quences to the speculators of any homicidal results ?