Practical observations on continued fever, especially that form at present existing as an epidemic : with some remarks on the most efficient plans for its suppression / by Robert Graham.

  • Robert Graham
Date:
1818
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    saving all this slaughter. I am unwilling to believe that the want of money will be any permanent obstacle to the exertions of the Committee. I am persuaded that the tenth part of the miseries that the poor suffer, oppressed by disease and worn down by want, is not generally known, else a city, which, to its unspeakable credit, besides its other extensive charities, raises by voluntary subscription every year, nearly Two Thousand Pounds towards the support of a Public Infir- mary, would not hesitate a moment to raise a sum competent to meet the present emergency. Care ought to be taken, that no excessive formality be required about the admission of pa- tients into the temporary hospitals. Every faci- lity should be given to them, that no time may be lost before they are removed from their houses. The only recommendation required, should be the fact, that the disease is fever. Every induce- ment should be held forth to encourage the in- fected to take advantage of the offer made to them; but if the aversion which the lower classes in Scotland have to an Infirmary, (an aversion f which by the by is greatly diminished, from the experience of the comfort of such an asylum,) should be such, as to keep any one from apply- ing, it is for the Police to determine what steps the public good requires that they shall take, to oblige him to leave a situation in which he
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