A letter to the Fever Committee, on their hitherto unsuccessful attempts to restrain typhus contagion in Glasgow; on the present state of the epidemic; and on the new, or additional, means that may be found requisite in order to ensure its abatement, or suppression / by Richard Millar, M.D.

  • Millar, Richard.
Date:
1818
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Credit: A letter to the Fever Committee, on their hitherto unsuccessful attempts to restrain typhus contagion in Glasgow; on the present state of the epidemic; and on the new, or additional, means that may be found requisite in order to ensure its abatement, or suppression / by Richard Millar, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    stantly, not only generating, but disseminating, contagion, none of them being sent either to the Relief Hospital, or Infirmary ; and if to these be added, the multitudes under a similar predica- ment, not only in the town itself, * but our popu- lous suburbs of Anderston, Gorbals, Bridgeton, and Calton, the real value of your labours, so far as regards the extermination of the disease, will be very readily understood. It is only. Gentlemen, you, and the public, may rest assured, hy a univer- sal, or nearly universal, s'weep of the sick into Fe- ver Hospitals, joined to a universal, or nearly uni- versal, purification of their dwellings, that any thing is to be hoped for in the way of suppressing our Epidemic. So far as this grand object is con- cerned, all the rest is folly:—It is worse than folly. By having the appearance of doing some- thing, it begets a false security, while at the same - * Tn the interior of the City, besides those of (he District poor, who, for want of room, cannot be received into the Relief Hospital, or Infirmary, there are two other classes constantly keeping up the contagion. One is a set of paupers, who, from different reasons, seek rather to conceal, than dis* close, their disorder, and who, of course, receive no medical aid whatever: The other, a far more numerous body, and whose lists, of late, have been rapidly encreasing, consists of persons in condition above poverty, but who are, at the same time, entirely unknown to the more opulent members of the Community.