Remarks on the General Sea-Bathing Infirmary at West Brook, near Margate; its public utility and local treatment / By Christianus.
- Christianus
- Date:
- 1820
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Remarks on the General Sea-Bathing Infirmary at West Brook, near Margate; its public utility and local treatment / By Christianus. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![tlie iricreasino- good eflecls of the Plan, from the rapid and extensive im)>rovement in the health of patients. As a proof how much its advantages are prized hy tlie ])oor, each season produces an aug- mented list of applications; hut hitherto, such has been the situation of the Directors in reirard to finances, that, on account of very limited resources, their benevolence in its operations has been invaria- bly and unavoidably and most reluctantly circum- scribed. Their zeal has been checked by their prudence: although, indeed, they have occasion- ally done more than an average of their revenues might have been thought to warrant. In ardent hopes of continued and increased patronage for such a noble Institution, however, they have per- severed, and not without success ; for, from the kind exertions of friends, an accession to the List of Governors has been made during the last year. For the purpose of soliciting additional assistance, the Directors circulated some pertinent Resolutions not many years ago; among which appeared the following : “ Resolved unanimously, “ That since The General Sea-Bathing Infirmarv has been declared bv the first Medical Gentlemen «/ of the Coimtrv, to be calculated to rescue numbers of the industrious poor of the Metropolis from the ra'v aging and vitiating tendency of scrofulous dis- orders, peculiarly generated in their confined](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28742850_0022.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
