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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    No. I. Page 6. “The cuftom of inhabiting cellars tends to promote both the origin and preferva- tion of febrile infeftion. But even in them the aftion of filth and confined air is always apparent when fevers arife. I have often obferved that the cellar of a fever-patient was to be known by a (battered pane, patch- ed with paper, or (luffed with rags, and by every external (ign of complete dirtinefs.” Dr. Ferriar’s Medical Hillories and Refleftions, Vol. I, page 138. No. II.
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