Reasons for establishing a sea bathing infirmary, on the western coast, for the benefit of the poor : addressed to thr governors of medical charities, to the Poor Law guardians, and to the friends of the poor ... : with an appendix, containing the opinions of various eminent medical authorities / by J.K. Walker.

Date:
1840
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Credit: Reasons for establishing a sea bathing infirmary, on the western coast, for the benefit of the poor : addressed to thr governors of medical charities, to the Poor Law guardians, and to the friends of the poor ... : with an appendix, containing the opinions of various eminent medical authorities / by J.K. Walker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    months, when sea air and bathing are most useful, would no longer be necessary. The object of a Sea Bathing Infirmary is to give relief to all such poor patients as are pro- perly recommended, without any exclusion, admitting within its walls only such as require daily professional superintendence, a just adaptation of diet, medicine, and bathing, and such other comforts and conveniences as cannot be obtained at a private dwelling, and under the head of out-patients, including such as can be equally as well relieved by the use of the baths, and by occasional attendance at the infirmary for advice and medicine. That the number of cases of the former description will always be great, is evident from the annual return of the Margate institution, where indeed the number of applicants for admission as in- patients is annually increasing, and where even private practitioners send 'patients of a higher grade, from a sense of the superior advantages to he derived from a residence within its walls, to what can he found in private lodgings. The Sea Bathing Infirmary at Margate has now existed for more than 40 years, during which it has imparted the greatest benefits to the diseased poor of London, and its populous environs. It has become what ils benevolent founders intended, an admirable support and supplement to the London Hospitals, and an
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