The history of the small pox / By James Moore.

  • Moore, James Carrick, 1763-1834.
Date:
1815
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Credit: The history of the small pox / By James Moore. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.

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    elude all persons infected with the Small Pox from mixing with the public, a law should be enacted to confine them strictly to their own houses, or in hospitals appropriated by the pa- rishes for that purpose, as long as the infection is upon them. The plan is simple, to enforce it would be easy; and the sole inconvenience would be a temporary confinement of those persons whose enlargement spreads poison through the land. By such a measure, the infection of the Small Pox, for want of subjects to act upon, would necessarily decline, and soon become extinct j and multitudes of human creatures would be annually preserved from disease, bhndness, and death. Some opposition might be expected from those who live by spreading contagion among the community. But these are a set of men whose immoral conduct merits rather the castigation of the magistrate, than the consideration of the . legislature. And few even of them would have the eftrontery to raise objections to a statute for extinguishing the most fatal pesti- lence that ever preyed upon man; which, like the benign law for abolishing the slave trade, would reflect lustre on the mover, adorn the annals of parliament, and add grace to the so- x 2