A history of the epidemic fever which prevailed in Bristol during the years 1817, 1818, and 1819 : founded on reports.

  • Prichard, James Cowles, 1786-1848.
Date:
1820
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Credit: A history of the epidemic fever which prevailed in Bristol during the years 1817, 1818, and 1819 : founded on reports. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    tigers in the menagerie of the Tower, though by no means so respectable in their appearance, or so commodious. These pens are now used only when the state of the patient requires strict confinement, or when by their noise and violence the other invalids are molested; but it would appear as if they were originally destined for the usual abode of male lunatics; at least no other receptacle has been provided within the Hospital for persons of this description. From this circumstance great inconveni- ences have arisen. The male lunatics and idiots in the house have been generally sta- tioned in the medical wards, and when fever prevailed there, several of them were infected, and a remarkably large propor- tion of this number fell victims to the disease.* The total number of names on the sick list of St. Peter’s Hospital varies in dif- ferent years: during some years it has * Of nine male lunatics and idiots, who, owing to the deficient means of separation in St. Peter’s Hospital, were exposed to the contagion and were attacked by fever, seveh died: one, as before stated, recovered his sanity of mind ; the other is still in the Hospital.