Ventnor, ia for the "neceesitous poor"; from most of the patients, however, a weekly payment of seven shillings and sixpence is required. It can accommodate 62 persons. The wards are small, containing about five beds. Almost adjoining is the large aud elegant Mont Dore Hotel and bath-house, but 1 could not learn that the inmates entertained any fear of contagion from their consumptive neighbors. Some of the " rules to be observed by the patienta " might strike one as somewhat peculiar, for

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... nce : " Patients shall attend daily morning and evening prayers; also divine service on Sunday, morning and evening." "Male and female patients may not take exercise together, or communicate with each other." And another, which seems assuredly questionable, when one considers that consumption is a disease which requires so much individualizaron, and in certain Btates, as fever, rest rather than exercise : " Patients are required to be able to walk out daily, are to make their own beds, to keep their wards iu order, to make themselves generally useful, and are not to remain iu their bedrooms during the day-time." The treatment is mainly fresh air and good food, with symptomatic medication. I give a specimen of a day's dietary : Breakfast.-Fried bacon, boiled eggs, cold meat, tea, coffee. Dinner.-Top side of beef, loin of mutton, suet pudding, baked rice pudding. Tka.-Broad and buttor, tea, jam. SuiTBit.-Hot and cold milk, soup, porridge.