A collection of papers, intended to promote an institution for the cure and prevention of infectious fevers in Newcastle and other populous towns. Together with the communications of the most eminent physicians relative to the safety and importance of annexing fever-wards to the Newcastle and other infirmaries / [John Clark].

John Clark

Date:: 1802

Credit: A collection of papers, intended to promote an institution for the cure and prevention of infectious fevers in Newcastle and other populous towns. Together with the communications of the most eminent physicians relative to the safety and importance of annexing fever-wards to the Newcastle and other infirmaries / [John Clark]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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(2 j But Mr Horn proceeds—« The Winchester, Cap= tain Bruce, carrying eighteen people, entered the har= bour of Pert Morant along with Mr Renwick, in high health,—and brought up to the leeward of the Henry, at about seventy fathoms distance. This last ship had been so severely afflicted with the yellow fever, as to bury ten out of her complement of twenty men. She lay exactly to the windward of Mr Bruce’s ship, with her ports open, tovallow a free current; and the efflu- via conveyed by these means so affected the Winchester’s erew, as to occasion the death of seven of them in se= ven days.” A person must be very credulous, whilst there appear more likely means of the contagion ha- ving been received directly from the sick on shore by personal intercourse, who will allow this instance as a proof of contagion having been d/wyz. to the distance of seventy fathoms in the open air. | Mr Horn still proceeds farther—« Nearly the same thing occurred in the ship Orion, whose crew was perfectly healthy whilst she lay to the windward of the Duckinfield, where the sickness raged, until, by accident, getting entangled with that ship, and to the leeward only for a few minutes, until the ships were cleared of each other, the disease made its appearance, and carried off ten. of the people.” The near inter- course between the seamen of two entangled ships is so obvious, that this instance certainly is a proof of the limited sphere of contagion, if the disease was caught from the Duckinfield.. ' ] y* { , But if contagion could really have been introduced ‘nto these: ships 7 the manner Mr Horn’so confidently asserts, it has no application. to the fever-house annexed to the Infirmary, where no contagion can subsist at 2 few feet from the patients; for, by completely wash- org:

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