Statements relative to the present prevalence of epidemic fever among the poorer classes of Glasgow : together with some suggestions, both for affording more adequate assistance to the sick, and for checking the farther progress of the contagion in a letter, addressed to the Honourable, the Lord Provost of Glasgow / by Richard Millar.

  • Millar, Richard.
Date:
1818
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Credit: Statements relative to the present prevalence of epidemic fever among the poorer classes of Glasgow : together with some suggestions, both for affording more adequate assistance to the sick, and for checking the farther progress of the contagion in a letter, addressed to the Honourable, the Lord Provost of Glasgow / by Richard Millar. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    prepared, and formed the subject of various con¬ sultations. In particular, it was read before a large meeting of the governors of the Town’s Hospital, its substance adopted, a Committee named to carry its measures into effect, and a sum of money voted for the purpose.—In the plan thus suggested by the official medical offi¬ cers of the city, two points were mainly insisted on; one, that a House of Reception should be instantly provided to which every fever patient, as soon as discovered, should have immediate ac¬ cess; another, that the Typhus contagion al¬ ready engendered in the houses of the sick should be destroyed, if possible, by the usual means; as of fumigation, ventilation, white-wash¬ ing the walls, cleansing the beds, furniture, &c. &c. These last precautions, I understand, were very speedily adopted, had indeed, if I mistake not, been partly resorted to before, and have since been practised, with laudable zeal and in¬ dustry, to a very considerable extent.—A Re¬ ceiving House was also fixed upon, viz. the brick mansion to the north of the Infirmary, lately possessed by Mr. Swanston, and now the pro¬ perty of the Town’s Hospital. To this building, accordingly, various visits were now made by the Committee, accompanied by their medical