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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 Institution. To this brief account of the Regulations it may not be improper to add that, in cases where the Physician may find the removal of a fever patient to be unnecessary, tho every apparent symptom of fever may have ceased in any dwelling, proper precautions, however, are not neglected; but

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that patients being* admissible at all times, without a recommendation being required, the disease may thereby be checked in its commencement, and speedily removed :the other, that, by the care which the Institution extends to the infected apartments of the sick, those who are not already infected may escape the contagion; and those who, in restored health, return from the House of Recovery to their families, will avoid the danger of renewed infection on their return home.

As benevolent individuals who may interest themselves in the present subject, may wish to know the Regulations of the Institution, I proceed to state, that the qualification of a Governor of the Establishment is the subscription of a guinea a year, or of 10 guineas in one sum:- that poor persons labouring under infectious fever and resident in the

It is requested that notice of cases of fever be sent, without loss of time, to the physician, when the patients will be visited. If they have already been attended by a medical practitioner, a certificate from him, stating the ease to be typhus, will ensure immediate admission.

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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, à 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 Institution. To this brief account of the Regulations it may not be improper to add that, in cases where the Physician may find the removal of a fever patient to be unnecessary, tho every apparent symptom of fever may have ceased in any dwelling, proper precautions, however, are not neglected; but

that patients being* admissible at all times, without a recommendation being required, the disease may thereby be checked in its commencement, and speedily removed:the other, that, by the care which the Insti tution extends to the infected apartments of the sick, those who are not already infected may escape the contagion; and those who, in restored health, return from the House of Recovery to their families, will avoid the danger of renewed infection on their return home.

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As benevolent individuals who may interest themselves in the present subject, may wish to know the Regulations of the Institution, I proceed to state, that the qualification of a Governor of the Establishment is the subscription of a guinea a year, or of 10 guineas in one sum:- that poor persons labouring under infectious fever and resident in the

*It is requested that notice of cases of fever be sent, without loss of time, to the physician, when the patients will be visited. If they have already been attended by a medical practitioner, a certificate from him, stating the case to be typhus, will ensure immediate admission.

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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, à 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 Institution.-To this brief account of the Regulations it may not be improper to add that, in cases where the Physician may find the removal of a fever patient to be unnecessary, tho every apparent symptom of fever may have ceased in any dwelling, proper precautions, however, are not neglected; but

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