OPEN-AIR TREATMENT. THE BETHNAL GREEN EXPERIMENT.

Bethnal Green is known for its poverty and its overcrowding. Henceforth it may celebrated as the place where sick children are cured of their ills. We publish this morning a photograph of group of little patients who, with others, are undergoing the open-air treatment, at the North-Eastern Hospital, in the Hackney-road.

Two years ago a large extension was made at the institution. While the plans were under discussion, someone suggested that it would be pleasant for the little ones if they had balcony to go out when they were getting well. This happy idea was adopted and improved, and a wide balcony was erected outside each of the six new wards.

After a few days’ play in the open corridors, the children had ravenous appetites, ruddy checks, and rapidly gained in weight and strength. The value of the treatment was quickly realised by the medical staff, and now all day long, and even at night, the little sufferers lie in cots the breezy balconies overlooking Hackney-road.