Miscellaneous works. Of the late Robert Willan. Comprising, An inquiry into the antiquity of the small-pox, measles, and scarlet fever, now first published: Reports on the diseases in London, a new edition. And detached papers on medical subjects, collected from various periodical publications / Edited by Ashby Smith.

  • Robert Willan
Date:
1821
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Credit: Miscellaneous works. Of the late Robert Willan. Comprising, An inquiry into the antiquity of the small-pox, measles, and scarlet fever, now first published: Reports on the diseases in London, a new edition. And detached papers on medical subjects, collected from various periodical publications / Edited by Ashby Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    from the slow, reluctant hand of parochial administrators is an insufficient palliative for the present case. Shall the unhappy pa¬ tient then seek for refuge in the parish work- house? Alas! the Fever is already making its ravages there]*.—What therefore is to be done? All these mischiefs admit of ready alle¬ viation, and might, with proper management, be removed at a moderate expense. Let Houses of Recovery be established in open, •* airy situations, at some distance from other buildings, but adjoining to different districts of the metropolis; to be supported either at the joint expense of the several parishes within each district, or by a voluntary subscription among its principal inhabitants. As soon as any person exhibits symptoms of a Fever from infection, let him be instantly removed into the House of Recovery, where, being- washed, and put, with clean linen, into a fresh bed, he will soon be freed from his com- * I do not intend this as a general censure on parish- officers : many do their duty conscientiously; but I have been mortified and indignant at the coldness with which some of them receive information of the most complicated misery, and at their positive refusal to inspect the distress, however strongly represented. f This has taken place in very many of the workhouses during the winter; several of the attending surgeons died, and others have suffered severely from the Fever.