Observations on the alarming progress of the gaol or typhus fever : with a summary of means of received practice for the treatment of the disease, and preventing its further contagion / by Sir G.O. Paul, bart.

  • Paul, George Onesiphorus, Sir, 1746-1820.
Date:
1817
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Credit: Observations on the alarming progress of the gaol or typhus fever : with a summary of means of received practice for the treatment of the disease, and preventing its further contagion / by Sir G.O. Paul, bart. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    a cutting off all communication between the healthy cc and the Tick, fo as to confine the infection to a nar~ “ row fpot, where by proper arrangements it may foon w be totally extinguished.”* <c When the fick are cohered, they fhould be ar—. a ranged into two claffes,—the flightly infected, and <c thofe with confiant fevers.f It Seldom happens in cc the gaol diflemper, that one-third of the patients in- Cl fected are fo ill as to be totally confined to bed, ef- cc pecially after having been bliflered. By making u this Separation, the Sphere of contagion will bg <c greatly contraded; fince I am inclined to believe, u that patients with a very flight infedlion, when kept u perfedfly clean, and in well aired apartments, do “ not communicate the difeafe.” If it be defigned to put an effectual flop to the pro- grefs of the diflemper, where it is already generally diffufed, a reception-hsufe mufl be prepared, Sufficient to contain the infedfed without crowding them too near each other. In Summer there can be no difficulty in finding a building Suited to the purpofejJ any large * Id. p.349. fid. p. 351. J Since this pamphlet was originally printed, the system here recommended has been adopted in many cities and towns on a very extensive scale,4>y the building or providing houses under the de- nominaton of Fever Wards, at the expence of private subscription. Under the superintendance of individual philanthropy j and, medi¬ cally assisted, (at great hazard of life,) by a branch of that gratui¬ tous professional beneficence, to which the medical charities wf these kingdoms are so peculiarly indebted. Establishments of this kind were first instituted at Manchester, and Liverpool. Similar institutions have since been established in London, Dublin, Cork, and Waterfojrd. u houfe