The duty and advantages of encouraging public infirmaries. A sermon preached before ... Charles Duke of Richmond ... President; and the governors of the London Infirmary ... March 25, 1743 / [Isaac Maddox].

  • Isaac Maddox
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1743
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Credit: The duty and advantages of encouraging public infirmaries. A sermon preached before ... Charles Duke of Richmond ... President; and the governors of the London Infirmary ... March 25, 1743 / [Isaac Maddox]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (were all other Motives filent) would be as lb many Tongues* which at once fpeak their own Anguifh and excite our Pity.. As the CharaCteriftick of the Engliflo is to be humane and be¬ neficent, fo nothing fhews it more than Inftitutions of a pub- lick Nature, fuch as Hofpitals and Infirmaries, which are here better regulated and fupplied with NecdTaries,. than in any other Country whatfoever. Some there are of Royal Endow¬ ment, and eltabliflied Revenue, and others of more modern- Inftitution, ereCted and fupported by the generous and volun¬ tary Contributions of good and well-difpofed Perfons; but alL thefe are by Experience known to be no ways adequate to the Numbers that feek Afliftance from them ♦, for as they can take in no more Patients than they have Beds, or give Medicine to, more than what their Income will allow, many poor unhappy Creatures mult be unavoidably lod. For his a Truth well known, that tho5 the City of London is more populous, and by its Trade and Navigation, the labouring Part thereof are more fubjeCt to Accidents and Difeafes than the common Peo¬ ple of Paris ; yet it appears from the annual printed Accounts*, that the Hotel Lieu alone contains more Patients at one time than all our Hofpitals and Infirmaries together. If fuch Pro- vifion is made for the difeafed Inhabitants of Paris, thofe of London more immediately require our Regard; particularly,, the Britijh Manufacturers and Seamen, as they are the chief Support of both our foreign and domeftick Trade. The Strength and Security of Great Britain depending chiefly on its Naval Power, the Wifdom of the Legiflature has. fhewed a peculiar Concern for the Comfort and Happinefs of fuch infirm and difabled Seamen, as have been engaged in the Service of the Royal Navy: But for Seamen employed only in the Service of the Merchant, and trading Part of the King¬ dom, or the Wives and Families of fuch, in Diftrefs by Sick- nefs, no defirable Publick Provifion has yet been made, or particularly inftituted for their Relief. Nor are our numerous, poor, induftrious Manufacturers, and Artificers, or their Wives and Children, by any particular Donations or Eftablifh- ment3 fufficicntly provided for* under the Calamity of bodily
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