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Credit: Workhouse hospitals / by J.H. Stallard. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![checked by remonstrance as to the expense in- curred. '1 But in order to form some conception of the duties and responsibilities of the Workhouse Surgeon, let as accompany him through his daily round, which ought to be commenced before two o’clock in the day, that he may inspect the applicants for admission, who have to be washed, clothed? and accommodated before night. It is his first duty to see that no contagious or infectious disease enters the house. Itch and] ring- worm are his especial horror, for, to say nothing of the expense of curing them, once admitted, they are not easily expelled. Typhus fever and small-pox have also to be guarded•;against, and every person not vaccinated must nhave pthatl operationoat^ once per- formed. .goihiedo Dilclnq non?! o.d The next visit is to the surgery j and notice of his arrival having ' been given throughout ^ the house, he examines every inmate who expresses a wish to con- sult him. eoaiun Jr T-iua lOfjOK; , nv k; of; , Amongst these there will be[adarge proportion of malingerers, whose only wish ,ds To obtain the com- forts and idleness of hospital life; others, hopeless of this, solicit change of diet,?; abstinence from work, extra beer, and some other indulgences which the Medical Officer can alone grant.' Great discrimination is required to separate the really sick, especially when the applicant has been frequently present in the former category. Then come the children from.the day and infant schools, a pcr-ccntage of whom require more or](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22337325_0011.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
