Remarks on the necessity and means of suppressing contagious fever in the metropolis / by C. Stanger.

  • Christopher Stanger
Date:
1802
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    fiderable expencc. Where thefe inducements fail, the meafures recommended ought, for general fecurity, to be enforced by penalties. Cleanlinefs might alfo be greatly promoted by fupplying water in abundance in the di{lri6ls of the poor, and by ere6ling baths, which they might ufe without trouble or expence.^ Workhoufes, which now frequently produce, preferve and dif- feminate contagion,'' might be made highly con- ducive to fupprefs it, by employing various means in their power, eafily practicable, to promote clean- linefs amongft the poor. Thefe public charities, more efpecially, ought to contain baths for the be- nefit of their inhabitants, and of all the indigent parifhioners. They might alfo contain machines and employ paupers, capable of working, in cleanfing many articles of drefs and furniture belonging to the poor, gratuitoully, or at a trifling expence. Perfons maintained by their parifh, and not entirely difabled, might alFift in white-wafliing and purifying the dwellings of the indigent;, and infpe61:ors ihould be employed to afcertain the circumftances under which theie precautions are neceflary. The flri6left attention fhould be obferved in removing putrid fubftances and other nuifances from the diftri£l:s in which the lower orders refide; and the ftreets and paflages fhould be well paved or flag- ged, and carefully drained.*^ Manufa<£lories which prepare, or employ largely, animal or vegetable fubilances in a putrefcent ftate, fhould be prohibited in populous towns.'' Meafures of this kind, pre- ^ Dr. Willan's Reports, p, 305. ]VTr. Tookt's View of the Ruflian Empire, p. ajS. *> Dr. Lind's Effays, p. 3. Dr. Clark's Preface to his Colleftion of Papers, p 32. ' Dr Ferriar's Medical Hiftories, Vol. II. p. 180 ; Vol. III. p. ai6. ^ Dr, Dixon's Obfervations, p. 166. Ditto, p. I4Z, ventive