Second report by the Board of Health for the City of Glasgow and Suburbs.
- Glasgow Board of Health.
- Date:
- [1832]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Second report by the Board of Health for the City of Glasgow and Suburbs. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![ken by the District Surgeons and properly qualified Assistants, approved of by the Medical Committee of the Board; and you will confer an obligation on the public, by using your influence with such of the poorer Members as may require such a monition, to receive the Medical Gentlemen with courtesy—to disclose the true state of their health without reserve—and to follow out with promptitude, the prescriptions which may be given. The Public generally must be made aware, that due attention to what are called the premonitory symptoms of the disease, is of the very first importance; and that, however slight or apparently trivial the warnings may appear, it is dangerous to neglect them. The Gentlemen employed in visiting certain Districts, inhabited by the poorer classes, complain of having received, in many in- stances, much personal abuse. But the real object of their visits requires only to be known to be duly appreciated, and to insure their being received with kindness and gratitude. The present may also be a very fit opportunity for impressing on the public mind, the incalculable benefits that must result from prompt application for Medical Assistance, in every case in which disease shall actually appear, and for removing from the public mind many erroneous impressions, in consequence of which, in some instances, the friends of the patients have not only posi- tively refused to allow them to be conveyed to the public Hos- pitals, but have even opposed the treatment of those unfortunate persons in their own houses. It is needless to dwell on the conse- quences of such infatuated conduct, which, if it were to be per- sisted in, would be detrimental, in the highest degree, to the public safety. In the public Hospitals, every means which human skill can dictate for the recovery of the diseased can at once be had recourse to, and while the very best Medical Advice which the City aff^ords, will, at all times, be available for the treatment of the disease, either in the Hospitals, or in the dwellings of the sick, it is confidently trusted that every prejudice will give way, and that no complaints, similar to those which have already reached the Board, will hereafter come before them.*] In conclusion, I have only to add, that the importance of the various matters now urged upon your notice, will, I trust, be a sufficient apology for the earnestness with which I have taken the liberty of urging upon you the sentiments and wishes of the Board, at which I preside. I am, respectfully, Reverend Sir, your most obedient servant, Robert Dalglish, Provosty Chairman of the Board. No. II. Yith February, 1632. As it has now been resolved to extend the limits of relief, dur- ing the existing exigency, and as Local Committees have been formed in the respective Police Wards, to take the charge of dis- tribution—the Committee of the Board of Health, after full communications with the General Commissioners, have come to the following Resolutions:—](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21451862_0008.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
