Rules and orders of the Hospitals for the smallpox and inoculation: instituted anno Dom. 1746.

  • Smallpox and Inoculation Hospital.
Date:
1786
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Rules and orders of the Hospitals for the smallpox and inoculation: instituted anno Dom. 1746. 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.

    27/36 (page 23)
    lend it, with the Acounts of the fame, to the Apothecary of the GeneraUHoJptal, upon the Patients being removed thither; where it lhall be , kept by the faid Apothecary till the Patients are difeharged. Apothecary or Matron at eath HofpitaL I, ry^HAT, whenever Patients are admitted, they lhall fee them properly received ^ having firft of all (in the Prefence of thofe who bring them) taken away, by a thorough Search, all their Money, in order to prevent the Patients obtaining Spirituous Liquors, or any thing elfe that may be injurious to their Health; fuch Mo- ney is either to be given back at that Time to their Friends, or elfe, being fet down with their Clothes, in a Book provided for that Purpole, to be kept in their Cuftody, while the Patients remain in the Hofpital, in order to be returned to them, or to their Friends, at the Time they arc difeharged. II. That they likewife at the fame Time do I write, or caufe one of thofe who come with the Patients