The mechanism employed for this purpose has already been fully explained in these columns. They are ready to take in their charge any prematurely born child, and, apart from the trained nurse and the wet nurses, they have retained the services of two physicians, who attend three or four times a day to watch over the health of the infants. At night the watchman awakes the nurses every three hours so that they may feed the infants, and in the day time the babies are fed, generally from the breast, every two hours. In the nursery there is a small pharmacy, contrivances for sterilising milk, ingenious feeding bottles, and scales so that the infants may be weighed and their progress daily observed. A very large number of persons have already visited this exhibit, including many trained nurses.
Much interest is manifested by the visitors.
The incubators and the ventilating tubes are silvered, which gives them a bright and cheerful appearance, while the infants within look clean and comfortable, so that altogether it is a pleasant as well as an interesting sight. It so happens that among the exhibits of the London Hospital to be seen in the main building there is an old-fashioned incubator which serves to illustrate the progress accomplished in modern days. This old incubator is not aseptic, for it is simply a wooden box with a glass lid, nor can the temperature within be automatically maintained. It is warmed by placing underneath three stone bottles containing hot water. Of course, the water becomes cold and the temperature falls unless the attendant is very careful.