The Hon. Medical Staff recommended that patients be allowed to smoke in the men's wards [of West Herts hospitals] between the hours of 2 and 4pm at the discretion of the sister-in-charge.
The committee approved this recommendation.
[From the Watford Observer of July 12, 1924]
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