A letter to the Fever Committee, on their hitherto unsuccessful attempts to restrain typhus contagion in Glasgow; on the present state of the epidemic; and on the new, or additional, means that may be found requisite in order to ensure its abatement, or suppression / by Richard Millar, M.D.
- Millar, Richard
- Date:
- 1818
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Credit: A letter to the Fever Committee, on their hitherto unsuccessful attempts to restrain typhus contagion in Glasgow; on the present state of the epidemic; and on the new, or additional, means that may be found requisite in order to ensure its abatement, or suppression / by Richard Millar, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![addition to your present, as many new Hospitals, as will be sufficient in capacity, to receive the whole three or four hundred Typhus patients, or whatever the number may be, now confined to their own habitations, within our city, suburbs, and adjoining villages, so as by completely insul- ating from the public the whole of these infected persons, and afterwards thoroughly cleansing their houses, furniture, &c. an effectual barrier may be, at last, put to the contagion. The period of seclusion, or quarantine, need not be long; (of course not for the same individuals, but only the same number of Typhus patients;) three or four ];nonths will suffice, and when this is accomplished, I venture to predict that the Fever, if not extir- pated, will be robbed of nearly all its terrors, or, at least, reduced within such narrow limits, as to entire number of persons, of every description, attacked fay the malady, during tlie preceding twelvemonth, exclusive of those enumerated in the above Table, at 1000, or ISOO, I would think I had committed no great error; nor do I conceive it rash to affirm, that considerably above four thousand individuals in all, about Glasgow and its neighbourhood, have suffered under this severe calamity, within the time now specified. Supposing the disease to augment with the same rapidity it has done for a good while past, and tliat no effectual means are taken to check its progress, how many it may seize upon, in the course of the ensuing year, it becomet painful to calculate—they cannot amount to less than £igkt thousand, or Ten thousand. What proportion of the futur? sufferers will belong to the upper classes of society, tirnc only can determine.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21464431_0033.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
