49 in the running title, for OBSERVATIONS ON THE PRESENT EPIDEMIC read ON THE CAUSES OF THE EPIDEMIC. 56 line 8 for houses, read house, –57-60 lines 3 and 17 for proportion read proportions There are a few inaccuracies in style in the cases and minute fractional errors in the tables; but they are so very trifling, that I do not consider it necessary to introduce them into the Table of Errata. In Table, NO. XXII. 27 and 28. Observations 25, 26 and 27. refer to cases 26, TOPOGRAPHY AND DOMESTIC ARRANGEMENT OF THE HOSPITAL. BEFORE proceeding to the subject of this treatise, it may not be amiss to give some account of the topography and domestic arrangement of the hospital. The Hospital of Queensberry House, formerly occupied as a Barrack, is a large stone building, situated at the eastern extremity of that ridge which descends from the Castle of Edinburgh to Holyroodhouse. It is well protected from the north wind by the Caltonhill, and from the west by the Castle, the High Street, and the numerous B buildings which branch off from it. On the south it is more open, but still protected by Arthur's Seat and Salisbury Craigs, which are only a few hundred paces distant. The Abbeyhill and the adjacent buildings sufficiently screen it on the east. On the whole, though extremely well ventilated, it is never subject to any severe or partial currents of wind. The soil on which it is built is gravelly, and about ninety feet above the level of the sea, from which it is distant rather more than a mile. The ground immediately around is damp; but the vicinity of the hospital itself is well drained. The access to it is very easy, both from the High Street and from the south back of the Canongate; and it has, in this last aspect, an excellent and ample airing ground, common to it and the Military Hospital. The building consists of a body, and two wings which project in front only. In the rear it presents nearly an uniform face. The occupied wing consists of five floors. The ground floor in front is below the level of the street, but quite open in the rear,-like many other buildings in this town situated on the side of the ridge. On this floor are the kitchen, store-rooms, apartments for the matron, one of the clerks, and the porter, with a waiting-room for the physicians. The accommodation for the patients is on the four up |