Begin the Beguine 4265 M Easter Parade 4292 M With A Song In My Heart 4292 M The Touch Of Your Hand 4291 M Somebody Loves Me 4291 M Falling In Love 4266 M Tea For Two 4266 M Josephine 36692 Louise 36692 Estrellita 4236 M London Again 69264 D By The Tamarisk 69264 D Swan Lake 69357 D Rosalie 36543 Speak To Me Of Love 35551 Pavanne 7361 M Clair De Lune 7361 M _Decca Recordings_ The Very Thought Of You 3110 B Cocktails For Two 3110 A Every Little Movement 18300 B Minute Waltz 18466 A Blue September 15050 A Valse Bluette 15049 B Sleepy Lagoon 18286 A _CHAPTER SEVEN_ MUSIC IN BED Modern hospitals are so different in organization and equipment from what they were a century ago, that it may be said that the hospital is a recently acquired phase of community life. Originally, the sick were treated in their own homes. The inconveniences and inadequacies of caring for the seriously, and especially the contagiously, ill at home led to the development of hospitals. The primary purpose of the hospital has not changed, and the musical aide must never forget that medical care and rest come before all else. Some bed patients are too ill to listen to music. It is possible that judiciously offered music might be of value to all patients but it is safer to deny a few in the absence of expert medical guidance than to disturb the sick. The musical aide may not question the wisdom of the physician in prohibiting the use of music in some wards or for some patients. The physician knows many things about the patient which are unknown to the musician and there is insufficient time to explain these to the musician. In institutions where the public-address system distributes music through ear-phones rather than through loud speakers, listening presents no problem and head-phones are not supplied to patients until the physician permits it. When only loud speakers are available, and the ward houses a mixture of seriously ill and convalescent patients (as is fairly common in large public hospitals) it may be necessary to deprive the ward of music for the sake of the few who should not have it.