Society for the Recovery of Persons Apparently Drowned. Instituted M.DCC.LXXIV.

  • Royal Humane Society (London, England)
Date:
[1774?]
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Credit: Society for the Recovery of Persons Apparently Drowned. Instituted M.DCC.LXXIV. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    admit the body into his houfe without delay, and furnifh the neceflary accommodations, the fum of one Guinea ; and alfo to fecure them from the charge of burial, in unfuccefsful cafes. V. A certain number of medical gentlemen, Ra¬ tioned near to the places where difafters by water are moft frequent, have engaged to give their afiift- ance gratis \ thefe gentlemen are to have a fu mi ga¬ tor, and other neceffaries, always in readinefs *. They Hatter themfelves, that by thefe regulations many individuals, in and about this metropolis, will be fecure of the beft and moft immediate af- fiftance in this critical ftate : And, where it fhould not prove fuccefsful, their relations will always have the fatisfadlion of reflecting, that the laft ef¬ forts have not been neglected. The general advantages arifing from this plan are many, and mu ft be obvious to every one. Although accidents by water may not be fo frequent in or about this city as in fome parts of Holland, yet they are fufficiently numerous to awaken the con¬ cern of every compaflionate breaft. The bills of mortality inform us, that no lefs than one hundred and twenty-three perfons were drowned within their limits in the courfe of the laft year. It is true fome few of them, being carried off by the tide, were not found for fome days, and their recovery became * Although the fociety deem it neceflary, at prefent, to confine their premiums to the cafes of drowned perfons only, as thefe inftances moft frequently occur in and about this me¬ tropolis, and feem moft entitled to their humane afiiftance j yet it is their defire to be extenfively ufeful, by informing the public, that the means of reftoration are applicable to fup- pofed deaths from various orher caufes, fuch as ftrargula- lion by the cord, fuffocation by damps ^nd nox;ous vapours, to thofe feized with convulfive and apople&ic fits, and to the frozen. totally