The hospital for the treatment of women's diseases by women,
hitherto established on a very small scale in Seymour Place, Edgware Road, is about to be enlarged. Two very good houses, 222 and 224 Marylebone Road, were purchased during the autumn, and are now undergoing the necessary alterations to fit them for a hospital holding thirty beds. Of course money is urgently needed for the charitable work. The opposition by the great Medical Trades Union to women's co-operation in a depart- ment not only peculiarly fitted for them, but which, so far as skilled nursing is concerned, has been recognised by medical men as in a very special sense their own, for genera- tions back, has been so violent and so perverse, that even against this modest attempt there will be much and bitterly hostile pre- judice. This it will take a good deal of energy to overcome.
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