Observations on the typhus, or, low contagious fever, and on the means of preventing the production and communication of this disease / By D. Campbell, M.D.

  • Campbell, D. (David)
Date:
1785
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Credit: Observations on the typhus, or, low contagious fever, and on the means of preventing the production and communication of this disease / By D. Campbell, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( ) *' jurious to the cotton.” “ VI. * Great attention ought to be paid to the privies. They Ihould be waflied D “ daily j * On my firft vifit at Backbarrow, the extremely of- fenfive fmell in the rooms, where the manufacture waS principally carried on,{truck me very forcibly. I his I wa$ inf rmed p-oceeded principally front the Privy, the doors of which, for indifpenfible reafons in the oeconomy of thefe works, where fo many children are employed, always communicate with the work-rooms, from the pains which had been taken to keep it f«\eet, without effect, 1 am per mailed, that whilft the fame radical de- fect exifts, in the conftrudt on of thefe edifices, as wa£ i:i th.s, all the efforts of c’eanlinefs will be exerted in vain, in endeavouring to remove the nuifance, which an appen- dage of this kind may occafion. In this opinion I am the more confirmed, from being informed, that the fame offenfive fmell. is generally complained of in works of this r.atu'e : and from a fubfequent publication of Mr. Peel$ one of the proprietors of the mills at Radclijffe, who in vindication of the ftate of thefe cotton-works, obferves, that no offenfive fmell could proceed from the privy, *'■ becaufe <t had been fhut up for fome weeks doubt- Jefs from ti e inconveniences it had occafioned. The d fficulty cf preventing the fmell of a privy from herng communicated, to an adjoining apartment, is fuf- ficiently known,from the trouble which is often occaficn- ed in keepin? a water dofet fwe.t. For the cold exter- nal air rufhing through the tube, into the warm chamber, . vfill