No more indigents, no more hospitals' and continued to demand the distribution of individual aid, to benefit the sick who were cared for at home,' others, including the poorest, were forced, by penury and the difficulty of obtaining treatment, to demand the setting up of hospitals in which the poor and sick would be lodged, fed, and treated; they hoped for a return to the principle of the poorhouse;' and houses were opened, clearly without governmental initiative, with funds raised by popular societies and assemblies.