metropolis, are freely and gratuitously admissible at all times into the House of Recovery and that upon notice of any such fever patient to the Physician of the Fever Institution (DR. BATEMAN, No. 16, Featherstone Buildings, Holborn, or to the House of Recovery, No. 2, Constitution Row, Gray's Inn Lane,) the patient may be immediately admitted by Dr. Bateman's order. For the removal of fever patients to the House of Recovery, and for preventing the danger (hitherto very general and often destructive) of spreading the infection by removing persons with contagious fever in backney coaches, a chair of a peculiar construction, and fitted up with a moveable lining, is provided; in which persons, ordered to be removed into the House, are carried there at the expense of the Institutio To this brief accomp the Regulatio add in fi ay not be imp ere the Phys a fever p (if the occupier permits) the apartments are always cleansed and white washed, the infected bed clothes and apparel purified or destroyed, and all other proper measures adopted for stopping the progress of contagion, and for preventing the renewal of its malignant and fatal effects. OBSERVATIONS. We have unexceptionable authority* for stating, that the infectious and malignant fever has not only been a prevalent and fatal evil among the poor of the metropolis, but has, at almost all periods, insinuated its baneful poison into the habitations of the higher orders. In order to prevent this danger (from which no class of the community can claim exemption) HOUSES of RECOVERY have been lately established in different parts of the United Kingdom. Their history is to be found in the preceding Reports of the * See the certificate of the Physicians of Hospitals and Dispensaries in London. Vol. III. Appendix, No. 8. ↑ See Reports, No. 13, 58, 92, and 108; and several papers in the Appendix. Society. To Dr. Haygarth of Chester, and Dr. Percival and Dr. Ferriar of Manchester we are indebted for the first example of this useful charity, produced in the town of Manchester, in the year 1796. For its extraordinary effects in checking the progress of contagion, and in diminishing the proportionable mortality by infectious fever, I must refer the reader to the papers already published in the Reports. The average number of deaths by fever in the metropolis in the preceding century, has considerably exceeded 3,000 annually. In some years above 4,000 persons have perished, within the bills of mortality, by this disorder; but since the establishment of the Fever Institution, this fatal calamity has been considerably diminished. The six years of the present century have produced an average of only 1966: and in the preceding year 1806, the number has been reduced to * See the Reports already referred to: and also the notes in Appendix to Volume II. and III. and the papers No. 8 and 9, in Appendix to Vol. III. and No. 3, 13, and 14 in Appendix to Vol. V. (if the occupier permits) the apartments are always cleansed and white washed, the infected bed clothes and apparel purified or destroyed, and all other proper measures adopted for stopping the progress of contagion, and for preventing the renewal of its malignant and fatal effects. OBSERVATIONS. We have unexceptionable authority* for stating, that the infectious and malignant fever has not only been a prevalent and fatal evil among the poor of the metropolis, but has, at almost all periods, insinuated its baneful poison into the habitations of the higher orders. In order to prevent this danger (from which no class of the community can claim exemption) HOUSES of RECOVERY have been lately established in different parts of the United Kingdom. Their history is to be found in the preceding Reports of the * See the certificate of the Physicians of Hospitals and Dispensaries in London. Vol. III. Appendix, No. 8. + See Reports, No. 13, 58, 92, and 108; and several papers in the Appendix. Society. To Dr. Haygarth of Chester, and Dr. Percival and Dr. Ferriar of Manchester we are indebted for the first example of this useful charity, produced in the town of Manchester, in the year 1796. For its extraordinary effects in checking the progress of contagion, and in diminishing the proportionable mortality by infectious fever, I must refer the reader to the papers already published in the Reports. The average number of deaths by fever in the metropolis in the preceding century, has considerably exceeded 3,000 annually. In some years above 4,000 persons have perished, within the bills of mortality, by this disorder; but since the establishment of the Fever Institution, this fatal calamity has been considerably diminished. The six years of the present century have produced an average of only 1966: and in the preceding year 1806, the number has been reduced to * See the Reports already referred to: and also the notes in Appendix to Volume II. and III. and the papers No. 8 and 9, in Appendix to Vol. III. and No. 3, 13a and 14 in Appendix to Vol. V. |