An address to the governors of Christ's Hospital, on the causes, and means of prevention, of the disease called ring-worm, in that establishment : to which is attached a few rules for the domestic management of the scholars during their vacations / by Samuel Plumbe.

  • Plumbe, Samuel, 1795-1837.
Date:
1834
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Credit: An address to the governors of Christ's Hospital, on the causes, and means of prevention, of the disease called ring-worm, in that establishment : to which is attached a few rules for the domestic management of the scholars during their vacations / by Samuel Plumbe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the condition of the former, and the fitness of the latter, for due and healthy nourishment, and the prevention of disease. You have before this, also, without doubt, received a printed copy of the Committee's Report, to which has been ap- JR!^4e^».Py^feG§mih^s^..p^ ,b9ie&vnr -nen---»-'r-----^ Fvfr.Q Bfloiaiqo osh Ito ojj.h-' ' v:- . (jgnjn addressing 'you :per^onally^ therefore, I feel tljat some explanation is necessary as to my mo- tives : they may be stated in a few words. In the first place, the brevity necessary to meet the yrishes of the Committee, and the convenience of the Governors at large, in the framing of my re- port, did not give me space to say all I thought .iiecessary, or to assign adequate reasons for what I ,did say. To supply these deficiencies, I now re- spectfully beg permission, as an act of justice to myself, and as, in my humble judgment, likely to afford satisfaction^ and further desirable informa- Ji,(M\ijjj|0;^tJbip (jovernors and Friends of so chari- table and splendid an Establishment.njjii^ axiJ to gam^n sili to iail & lUiw baiuov^i auw ha^ jnoil It appears that this disease has never been ab- g§|?nt from the Institution for ten or twelve year^ : .that, dqring this period, a very large portion of the boys have been affected, or have been sup- posed to be affected; and have, consequently, been from time to time residing with their friends, deprived, probably of all education ; or, at ,tlie Establishment at Hertford, of the advantag^^jpf j.;aj] the higher grades of it, contemplated^by^tjie