On Wednesday the King opened the Sanatorium at Midhurst. It
was the King's wish that there should be a special institu- tion for the study and treatment of consumption, and the munificence of Sir Ernest Cassel enabled his Majesty to carry out his scheme. The King in his reply to the address read by Sir William Broadbent declared that it was his desire that this institution should afford accommodation for that large class of persons of slender means, in professional and other employ- ments, for which no provision for sickness of this kind at present existed. "It is also my wish that those persons of larger means who can afford to pay for treatment here should not be en- tirely excluded from the advantages to be derived from this institution, and I have accordingly decided that a small number of beds shall be reserved for them." We do not doubt that the Midhurst Sanatorium will do excellent work in freeing many men and women from what is one of the most terrible of human ills. His Majesty and all concerned with the Sanatorium are to be congratulated on the accomplishment of so beneficent a work.
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