ABSTRACT
Hospitals with buildings dating from before about 1940 may still have the gates, or at least the gate posts, which suggest the approach to a building of substance. But the metal conscription of the 1940s, the subsequent hospital philosophy of unimpeded access and discharge besides the cost of personal attendance which all gates require have dealt them their deathblow. If a hospital gate survives, it is unlikely to be in use. What is left is the roadway which in older towns will describe the curve demanded by a horse-drawn vehicle, being character istically a tight curve, while all subsequent roadways will describe the curve required by a vehicle at speed, which is an open or wide curve.
