Reasons for establishing a sea bathing infirmary, on the western coast, for the benefit of the poor : addressed to thr governors of medical charities, to the Poor Law guardians, and to the friends of the poor ... : with an appendix, containing the opinions of various eminent medical authorities / by J.K. Walker.

Date:
1840
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Credit: Reasons for establishing a sea bathing infirmary, on the western coast, for the benefit of the poor : addressed to thr governors of medical charities, to the Poor Law guardians, and to the friends of the poor ... : with an appendix, containing the opinions of various eminent medical authorities / by J.K. Walker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    situated in the Delta of the Dee, about 12 miles from Chester. There are several subscribers, and a very moderate subscription enables them to send patients for a few weeks in the summer months to that bathing place, and in most instances the result has been highly satisfactory. But I would especially invite the attention of the profession to that very unpretending, yet very useful institution at Southport, called the Strangers’ Charity, for the relief of poor sick persons to whose recovery sea air or bathing may be conducive, and who bring a recom- mendation from a subscriber, and a certificate from a medical practitioner. Each patient stay- ing three weeks, costs the Charity on an average, 24s., including the use of the warm and cold baths, medicine, &c. Every subscriber of one guinea a year is entitled to send one patient for three weeks, who has the gratuitous attendance of a medical man—such medicines as may be re- quisite, and the use of either warm or cold sea baths. But in addition to this, each patient has seven shillings a week allowed, for the purpose of procuring food and lodging. The lodging houses are under the surveillance of the officers of the Charity, and each patient pays half-a- crown a week for his accommodation. This institution has proved a great blessing to many of the sick poor of Lancashire, of whom between three and four hundred are annually made par-