Sanitary economics: or, our medical charities, as they are, and as they ought to be / [Alexander Patrick Stewart].

  • Alexander Patrick Stewart
Date:
1849
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Credit: Sanitary economics: or, our medical charities, as they are, and as they ought to be / [Alexander Patrick Stewart]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    My late illustrious countryman, Dr. Chalmers, whom I am inclined to place in the first rank as an authority in social economics, has expressed, before a Poor-law Committee of the House of Commons, and in many parts of his writings on Political Economy, his firm conviction that you cannot go wrong in giving to the poor every possible facility for obtaining medical relief. In his work, “ On the Sufficiency of the Parochial System/' * he infers (p. 177) that, while the example of the Great Physician “ discountenances all public institutions for the relief of want, it affords us an encouragement and a sanction, when we propose that, for the cure or the alleviation of disease, such public institutions might be multiplied to the uttermost; ” and that, while a known provision for want, if it be want irrespective of character, holds out a premium on improvidence, dissipation, and sloth, “ it is not so with an asylum of disease, for which * Glasgow, 1841.
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