Burdett's Hospitals and Charities, 1896. By Henry C. Burdett. (Scientific
Press.)—This is the seventh year of publication of this invaluable manual, a volume which contains a quite exhaustive statement of its subject. What hospitals do, for whom they do it, by whose help, and at whose cost, are every one of them questions of the profoundest interest, and they find their answer here. Mr. Burdett is not a through-thick-and-thin advocate of the present system. On the important point of admission of patients ho gives a distinct opinion that it " requires reform and amendment." One manifest reform is payment by patients, an item of revenue less in London than it is in Scotland and Ireland. On other points Mr. Burdett has much that is worth hearing to say. He is diligent in collecting facts and figures, and he knows—no man better—what. they mean. In view of the fact that Hospital Sunday is now close at hand—the day after this notice appears— we may quote Mr. Burdett's opinion on the cardinal point of the employment of funds, that the money is not wasted. Let no one hold his hand for fear that his contribution will not be utilised to the utmost.
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