The duty and advantages of encouraging public infirmaries, further considered. A sermon, preached before his Grace Charles Duke of Richmond, Lenox, and Aubigny, President; and the governors of the London Infirmary, in Goodman's-Fields, for the relief of sick and diseased manufacturers, and seamen in merchant-service, &c. at the Parish Church of St. Lawrence-Jewry, on Wednesday, April 25, 1744 / By ... Isaac, Lord Bishop of Worcester.

  • Maddox, Isaac, 1697-1759.
Date:
1744
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Credit: The duty and advantages of encouraging public infirmaries, further considered. A sermon, preached before his Grace Charles Duke of Richmond, Lenox, and Aubigny, President; and the governors of the London Infirmary, in Goodman's-Fields, for the relief of sick and diseased manufacturers, and seamen in merchant-service, &c. at the Parish Church of St. Lawrence-Jewry, on Wednesday, April 25, 1744 / By ... Isaac, Lord Bishop of Worcester. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    their own Anguifti and excite our Pity. As the Characteriftick of the Englijh is to be humane and beneficent* fo nothing fhews it more than Inftitutions of a publick Nature, fuch as Hofpitals and Infirmaries, which are here better regulated and fupplied with Neceflaries, than in any other Country whatfoever. Some there are of Royal Endowment, and eftablifhed Revenue, and o~ thers of more modern Inftitution, erected and fupported by the generous and voluntary Contributions of good and well-difpofed Perfons; but all thefe are by Experience known to be no ways adequate to the Numbers that feek Aflifiance from them; for as they can take in no more Patients than they have Beds, or give Medicine to more than their Income will allow, many poor unhappy Creatures mu ft be unavoidably loft. For ’tis a Truth well known, that tho’ the City of London is more popu¬ lous, and by its Trade and Navigation, the labouring Part thereof are more fubject to Accidents and Difeafes than the com¬ mon People of Paris; yet it appears from the annual printed Accounts, that the Hotel Lieu alone contains more Patients at one time than all our Hofpitals and Infirmaries together. If fuch Provifion is made for the difeafed Inhabitants of Paris, thofe of London more immediately require our Regard ; particularly, the Britijh Manufacturers and Seamen, as they are the chief Sup¬ port of both our foreign and domeftick Trade. The Strength and Security of Great Britain depending chiefly on its Naval Power, the Wifdom of the Legiflature has fhewed a peculiar Concern for the Comfort and Happinefs of fuch infirm and difabled Seamen, as have been engaged in the Service of the Royal Navy : But for Seamen employ’d only in the Service of the Merchant, and Trading Part of the Kingdom, or the Wives and Families of fuch, in Diftrefs by Sicknefs, no defirable Publick Provifion has yet been made, or particularly inftituted for their Relief. Nor are our numerous, poor, induftrious Manufacturers, and Artificers, or their Wives and Children, by any particular Donations or Eftablifhment, fufficiently provided for, under the Calamity of bodily Difeafes and Cafualties ; tho’ in fuch afflicting and melancholy Circumftances, they are incapable of provid¬ ing for themfelves or Families by their ufual Labour and In- duftry. E Thefe