e any Sick are admitted.

After this the Beds ought to be laid; in doing of which great Care
should be taken not to crowd the Wards too much, as nothing corrupts
the Air so much, or so soon brings on infectious Disorders. Dr.
_Pringle_ says, the Beds ought to be laid so thin, that a Person
unacquainted with the Danger of bad Air, might imagine there was Room
for double or triple the Number. In high lofty Apartments, and in
Churches, and other large Places, the Beds may be laid much closer
together than in Rooms with low Cielings. In Churches, or such Places,
thirty-six square Feet, or a Square of six Feet by six, may be allowed
for each Man; but in common Wards we must allow from forty-two square
Feet, _i. e._ six by seven Feet, to sixty-four square Feet, or eight
by eight, according to the Height of the Cieling, the Airyness of the
Place, and the Nature of the Diseases of the Patients.

The Bedding most fit for Hospitals, is Palliasses and Bolsters filled
with Straw, Sheets, and Blankets, as they can easily be washed.
Feather Beds and Matrasses are apt to retain Infection, and cannot be
easily cleansed. In the fixed Hospitals, Bedsteads or Cradles may be
set up for laying the Bedding on: But in the Moveable or Flying
Hospital the Bedding must be, for the most part, laid on the Floor.

When once the Beds are laid, and the Sick arrive, some of the
Gentlemen belonging to the physical Department ought to attend, to
distribute the Sick properly through the Hospitals.

All the Surgery Patients, such as have Wounds, Ulcers, Sores, the
Venereal Disease, &c. should be separated from the Rest, and put
either into particular Wards by themselves, or into an Hospital fitted
up for that Purpose under the Direction of the Surgeons.

Those labouring under infectious Fevers and Fluxes, should each of
them be placed in good airy Wards by themselves, where the Beds are
laid much thinner than in the other Wards of the Hospital. If the Flux
Wards have a Privy near them, where the Men can ease themselves,
without being offensive either to their own Ward, or any other Part of
the Hospital, they are so much the fitter for such Patients. In the
Hospital I attended at _Bremen_, the Flux Ward had a Necessary that
opened into the River _Weser_, and at _Natzungen_ a deep Pit was dug
in the Field about twenty Yards from the Barn where the Flux Men lay,
which kept these Wards always sweet.

Patients that have got the Itch, or any other infecti