The duty and advantages of encouraging public infirmaries. 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, etc., at the Parish Church of St. Mary-le-Bow, on Friday, March 25, 1743 / By ... Isaac, Lord Bishop of St. Asaph.

  • Maddox, Isaac, 1697-1759.
Date:
1743
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Credit: The duty and advantages of encouraging public infirmaries. 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, etc., at the Parish Church of St. Mary-le-Bow, on Friday, March 25, 1743 / By ... Isaac, Lord Bishop of St. Asaph. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    / / every Quarter, before whom a Report is made from the Week¬ ly Committees, all By-Laws are then confirmed, all Vacancies fill’d upland Accounts Audited. Alfo an Annual General Meeting of all Subfcribers to Revife and Confirm the General Accourt of Proceedings, which is immediately after pub- lifhed for the SatisfaCton of the Publick. The Accounts are kept in a regular mercantile Manner,, and the Names of the Patients, their Employment, Place of Abode,, Diforder, the Ififue of the Cafe, and the Name of the Subfcriber who fent them, are inferred in feveral Columns in a. Book for that Purpofe ; and are always ready for the In- fpefrion of Subfcribers, as alfo the Statutes and By-Laws for the particular Regulation of this Infirmary\ All poor,. Tick, and lame, who are recommended, or ap- proper qi pear to the Committee to be truly neceffitous, are received from the Hours of Eleven to One, who are fupply’ei with Advice, Medicine,. Diet,, Walking, Lodging, and every comfortable Affiflanee during their Cure. No Perfons with incurable or infectious Diftempers, or of known Ability to pay for their Cures, are admitted to partake of this Charity y but all Accidents are received at any Hour of the Day or Night. This is the Plan of our Proceedings, and tho5 this Work is but in its Infancy, yet fuch has been the extraordinary En¬ couragement given to it, by Numbers of Diflinguifhed Hu¬ manity, that we have the Satisfaction to allure the Publick,, that fince the 3d of November, 1740, it has pleafed God to blefs us with fuch Succefs, that upwards of 5000 dilire ffed ObjeCts have been Relieved at the London Infirmary, and: from Labouring under the Opprefiion of fome of the moll malignant Difeafes, $nd unhappy Accidents, have been re* inflated in their Honell and Induflrious Capacities of Work¬ ing ; whereby the Publick again enjoy the Benefit of their La¬ bour*, they, and their poor Families preferved from perifhing,, and prevented from being a conftant. Incumbrance to the Com¬ munity, The;