“It is true that we have a Morse-Boulger garbage destructor, and it has been in service about four years. The capacity of the chamber is about twenty barrels. In selecting the size we had in view the quantity of garbage that we have to burn each twenty-four hours, so that the chamber would hold all the garbage produced in twenty-four hours at one charging, thus relieving the necessity of keeping the fire going all the time. As it is now, the fire is started in our crematory about 4 o’clock in the afternoon, and by 10 o’clock at night the charge is all burned out. This gives the apparatus time to cool off, so that the night fireman can clean it out before he goes off duty and leave it ready for re-charging in the morning. “The destructor has worked very satisfactorily for us, and burns the whole of our garbage with about 500 pounds of buckwheat coal per day, which means an expense of from forty to seventy cents a day, owing to the price one has to pay for the coal. “I do not believe you can recommend too strongly the use of such an apparatus for hospital purposes.” Other and cheaper crematories for the use of the smaller hospitals are in the market, they being efficient, so far as the capacity goes, and the price being within the reach of practically every small hospital. An illustration of one of the best of these cheaper crematories, made by the Bramhall-Deane Co., is here shown. Certainly every institution with new buildings or additions in course of erection that has not yet made provision for the sanitary disposal of garbage and refuse, should keep this matter in view as one of the improvements to be arranged for as speedily as possible. There is no royal road to safety in a hospital. There are hidden dangers on every side. “Eternal vigilance is the price of safety.” The most expensive and wisely constructed building and the best modern equipment will not long remain in a sanitary condition unless watchful care is exercised, and intelligence and energy applied to the eradication of dirt, and conditions that favor the multiplication of the enemies to life and health that are ever present. In the regular daily cleaning of a hospital no “royal road” has been discovered. There are on the market a great variety of washing powders, scouring soaps and such things, but nothing has been discovered that quite takes the place of human labor. CHAPTER XII. [Sidenote: The Help Question]