(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. (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. 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. 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. |