Observations on the alarming progress of the gaol or typhus fever : with a summary of means of received practice for the treatment of the disease, and preventing its further contagion / by Sir G.O. Paul, bart.

  • Sir George Onesiphorus Paul, 2nd Baronet
Date:
1817
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Credit: Observations on the alarming progress of the gaol or typhus fever : with a summary of means of received practice for the treatment of the disease, and preventing its further contagion / by Sir G.O. Paul, bart. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 58 ] ting afide the confideration of humanity, and retting its motive on the Angle point of ceconomy, J am bold to fay, that if the difeafe has generally diffufed itfelf in a populous parish, the undertaking mutt anfwer to the public intereft. _ 5 c -:o ■ : ; : • ■ .. p n *u ■ ■ ni lof If the cloaths are made of the cheapeft materials; if the purifying ftove is worked only with charcoal fire and brimttone ; or if the other fumigations ufed are produced from the cheap fubttances recom¬ mended; and if the whole be purchafed at the beft hand, the collective expence of fuch an effort will bear no proportion to the accumulating burthen of re¬ lieving difeafed families, and the conttant future main- \ tenance of children, who become orphans by the death of parents. To the motive of general policy may be added the confideration of individual fafety. For although the filthy and miferable are moft obnoxious to the conta¬ gion, they are not exclufively liable. It has been, and may again be, the fate of many perfons in affluent life to become its vkflims. I may add, as a motive, which, though latt, is, I hope, not leaft in influence—the fatisfa£tion of preferv-r ing our indigent fellow- creatures from an addition to their habitual miferies; which (unlike many others they fuffer) is rarely imputable to their own indifcre- lion. G. O. P. FINIS.