The Hospitals for Small Pox in the natural way and Inoculation were instituted in 1746, and have been supported by voluntary subscription. These Hospitals consist of two houses at a sufficient distance from each other, and in airy situations. That for preparing the patients for inoculation at Pancras contains 100 beds; and that for receiving them when the disease appears, and for admitting those who are seized with the Small Pox in the natural way, in Cold Bath Fields, 130 beds. All who are destitute of friends or money and are attacked with this disease, or are desirous of being inoculated, if seven years old or upwards, are proper objects of this charity. Patients in the natural way are received every day, if there is room for them; and to prevent the danger and expence of a disappointment, enquiry should be first made. Patients for Inoculation are also received every day at Pancras before nine in the morning. Strangers are forbid to visit the patients. Cloaths are provided for the patients, while their own cloaths are freed from infection before their discharge. As the first outline of every attempt towards a new institution has for the most part been imperfect, it is not to be wondered at if the plan and regulations of these Hospitals should admit of improvements; and the following remarks will perhaps point out some regulations that deserve attention. It is now near thirty years since the first establishment of this charity; at which time it was the received opinion that a strict regimen ought to be observed, and a course of medicine complied with, by way of preparing the most healthy previous to their Inoculation. It was also believed, that there was some risque of taking the natural infection injuriously at the time of being inoculated, and danger of accumulation by residing with others who had the disease; and the inoculators of that time who made use of infected thread and lint, sometimes failed infecting on the first trial, and in such case the patient would probably catch the natural distemper by cohabiting with the sick.