Appendix V. to the second report on quarantine : report of Dr. W.H. Burrell on the plague of Malta in 1813.

  • Great Britain. General Board of Health.
Date:
1854
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Credit: Appendix V. to the second report on quarantine : report of Dr. W.H. Burrell on the plague of Malta in 1813. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    The General Board of Health, Whitehall, 5th June 1852. Sir, I AM dii-ected by tlie General Board of Health to con- vey to you tlieir sense of the value of the report presented by you to the Lords of Her Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council, stating in detail the reasons for the opinions given by you as member of a Board of Inquiry assembled at the office of the Army Medical Department, on the subject of yellow fever, and which the General Board have inserted in the Appendix to their Second Report on Quarantine. The Board desire me further to express their hope and belief, that those reasons will assist in diffusing juster views on the mode of propagation, not only of yeUow fever in particular, but of epidemic diseases in general; and I am therefore to request that you will favour them with any assistance which your observation and experience may enable you to render, with a view to extending a knowledge of the science of prevention in reference to Plague, and leading to a practical reform in quarantine. I have, &c., (signed) C. Macaulay. W. H. Burrell, Esq., M.D., Principal Medical Officer, Malta. Malta, 8th J^ly 1852. Sir, I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 5tli ultimo, conveying the favourable opinion of the General Board of Health on my report on yellow fever, and requesting any remarks I may be able to furnish with reference