Remarks on the situation of the poor in the metropolis, as contributing to the progress of contagious diseases; with a plan for the institution of houses of recovery for persons infected by fever / published by the desire, and at the expense, of the Society for Bettering the Condition of the Poor.

  • Murray, T. A. (Thomas Archibald), -1802.
Date:
1801
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Credit: Remarks on the situation of the poor in the metropolis, as contributing to the progress of contagious diseases; with a plan for the institution of houses of recovery for persons infected by fever / published by the desire, and at the expense, of the Society for Bettering the Condition of the Poor. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    But although the accommodations in the middle and upper part of the houfe are ex- ) tremely uncomfortable^ they are in every refpeft preferable to thofe in the loweft apartment or cellar, where darknefs, dirt and ftagnant air combine to augment all the evils refulting from fuch a fituation*’. i The ftate of the windows requires to be particularly noticed, as being intimately con- ] ne6led with the prefent fubjeft. Many of \ thefe cannot be opened without admitting air j apparently more noxious, certainly not lefs offenfive, than that already contained in the room ; in other inftances, the fafhes have fre- quently been rendered by age or accident im- moveable; wood or paper has been fub- flituted for broken panes of glals; and every crevice is fo carefully ftuffed by woollen, rags or -fome* other filthy fubftance, that as means of admitting frefli air the windows are often totally ufelefs f. Thus I i * See Appendix, No. L + To enter Into more minute particulars, and defcribc all the circumftances of thefe miferable apartments, feems fcarcelv