[Report on cholera].

  • Glasgow (Scotland). Board of Health.
Date:
[1832]
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    ' . THE BOARD OF HEALTH For the City and Suburbs of Glasgow, have, in conformity with what was resolved at their formation, gone on silently, and with the view not unnecessarily to increase alarm in the public mind; but now, that Cholera is no longer distant, they deem it proper to present the following REPORT. The first matter which attracted the attention of the Board was the prevalence of Typhus Fever to a great extent, and in a form unusually virulent. The inadequacy of the accom- modation at the Royal Infirmary, for patients labouring un- der that disease, was matter of serious consideration. To supply this want, the Board gave early attention, and ob- ttained a lease, for one year, at a moderate rent, of a large Cotton Mill at Mile-End, which they have fitted up, in a very comfortable and suitable manner, for Fever cases, and | also for the treatment of Cholera, should it be necessary to * use it for that purpose. The requisite establishment of Me- dical Officers and Servants was appointed, and this Hospital, capable of containing one hundred and forty patients, was opened on the 7th January. It was rapidly filled ; and the treatment of patients has been followed with much success. Connected with this department a plan was adopted by the Commissioners of Police, under the sanction of the Board of Health, to use means for disinfecting bed-clothes, and to fumigate every house in which fever had pre- vailed. The process is still in operation on an extensive scale, and on scientific principles, sanctioned by the Me- dical Committee, at a meeting where the Professor of