Rules and orders of the Hospitals for the Small-pox and Inoculation.

  • Hospitals for the Small-pox and Inoculation (London, England)
Date:
1767
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Rules and orders of the Hospitals for the Small-pox and Inoculation. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    15/32 page 9
    ( 9 ) found therein* taken out once every Quarter or ©ftener, in the Prefence of the Committee. II. ThatnoPerfon (Governors excepted* or in the Prefence of a Governor) be permitted to vifit the Patients in the Houfe in the Natural Way, uniefs it be by the Appointment of the Governor Recommending, with the Approbation of the Phyfician. * III. That the Houfe-Committee fhall appoint the Number of Perfons to be received at a Time for Inoculation, according to the Order they Hand entered on the Books, by giving Seven Days Notice in the Public Advertifer of the Day fixed for their Admifiion. IV. That a proper Drefs be provided for the Patients, and worn by them while their own Cloaths are carefully fumigated and a'r’d ; after which they are to be delivered to them in a Room detached from the Hofpital ; and then they are to be immediately difmifled, and not fuffered to go back into the Wards. V. That no Officer or Servant of the Hofpita], or other Perfon any way belonging to it, pre¬ fume to take of any Governor, Tradefman, Pa¬ tient, Stranger, or others, any Fee, Reward, or Gratification of any Kind, dire&ly or indiredlly, for any Service done, or to be done, on account of the Hofpital, on pain of being immediately difcharged. VI. That the Apothecary and Matron of each Houfe fhall never on any Occafion be both abfent C -
    digitised image 1
    digitised image 2
    digitised image 3