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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    degree the^ pf,tbe difeafc in iKich par^ ticular inflance. It has >been obresrved, that * ]ivhere two or more perfoos are confined to one bed by a fever at the fame time, k al- moft invariably happens that at leak one of them finks under the difeafe.. In almoft all the inftances of fatal termination, the pa- tients die at a very extended period of the difeafe, their ftrength being rather gradually exhaufled by its duration, than overpowered by its force “ It is very difficult,” as Dr. Ferriar re- marks, “ to eradicate the fever, when it feizes a family thus fituated. The con- valefcents,' from their confinement in the midft of infe6lion, have frequent relapfes', at- tended with increafing danger, fo that the difeafe continues in the fame fpot for feveral months together. The recovery even of thofe who do not relapfe, is alfo tedious and imperfefl, beyond the conception of any’who f I V. ' * Obfervations on Difeafes in London, by the Phyficians of the Finfbury Difpenfary, Med. and Phyf. Journal, Vol. IV. page 395.‘- T n;i i i-rn-'r ^ have ni