Excerpt from At Night in a Hospital: Reprinted by Permission From "Belgravia" For July, 1879Most Of us have been through the wards Of a hospital by day, but few have been admitted as visitors in the night. This valuable privilege and rare experience were granted to one other and myself, both taken in the skirts Of a dear and gracious lady, the wife of one Of our leading physicians, and herself well known for her zeal in hospital work and sanitary matters generally. The very drive in the late evening from one Of the fashionable w'est-end centres through the slacken ing traffic Of the city, and onto that toiling, noisy, crowded Whitechapel with its look Of sitting up all night, and where even the children never seem to go to bed, doing its business as diligently at mid night as at noonday, and as careless Of rest as Of repose - this drive itself is an experience worth having. At first we meet only the carriages of the rich and great whirling Off their wealthy occupants to stately dinner-parties which cliffs and cordons bleus make works Of art as well as of science, and where the whole round Of beauty and luxury is complete. Then the private carriages cease, and we come into the region Of street cabs and omnibuses filled with the subordinates Of the business world going home to their little villas in the suburbs, and, finally.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.