It 6 On lettering the Condition of the Poor. 



Supposing 4,000 pints of soup to be dispensed 



in a year, at 2d. a pint - «s£\33 6 & 

 3,000 pints of strong porter dispensed 



in a year, at 3d. a pint - 37 10 O 



• . Total expenses ^70 16& 



Considering this limited dietetic in the light of new and 

 more appropriate medicines, nothing in the general eeconomy 

 of the system can be supposed to experience any change. 

 One prescription* from the physician or surgeon* goes to the 

 apothecary, and another to the kitchen. Nothing is in the 

 smallest degree disturbed, and the utmost regularity would 

 pa-vail r 



Under a self-evident presumption, that fchb dietetic >s to 

 save the lives of many individuals, who would otherwise 

 sink under their complaints ; and, by thus giving effect to 

 the power of the medicines, preserve many useful lives, — it is 

 scarcely possible for the human mind to devise any scheme 

 where so much good is likely to be done at so small an ex- 

 pense. Nor is there any way in which the condition of the 

 sick poor in the metropolis can be so much improved; since 

 the success of an experimental dispensary, with a dietetic 

 auxiliary, upon the plan now proposed, (as to which there, 

 ran be no doubt,) would be the means of extending the same 

 [tfto to the other dispensaries in the metropolis; and 

 thereby ctmi ribute to the recovery of many hundred poor 

 persons in the course of a year, to whom, for want of a 

 small portion of nourishing food applied at a critical mo- 

 ment, medicines can be of little use in effecting a cure. 



For these and other reasons which could be adduced, the 

 garters are decidedly of opinion, that an experimental dis- 

 pensary, upon the plan now proposed, would prove an in- 

 calculable benefit to the poor, and that it highly merits the 

 patronage and countenance, not only of this society, but of 



ihe public at large, 



M. Garthshorr. 



P. CotfcUHOUN. 



london, Fet>. 3, 190& 



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