Z^O SHREWSBURY/ 



The perfons who manage thefe and all the Other 

 immediate concerns of the houfe, are a ftev/ard and 

 matron, who are anfvverable for their conduct to the 

 board of direftors. 



4-t a little diilance from the houfe there are two 

 ranges of building that run parallel with each other. 

 The one contains apartments to which the poor are 

 fent, on their admiflion, to be dripped and wafhed ; 

 and, if found to have any cutaneous, or other in- 

 fectious diforder, they remain there till they are 

 cured : there are, of courfj, feparate wards for the 

 women and the men. Adjoining to this there is an 

 apartment to which the dead are immediately con^ 

 veyed, to remain till their interment. In the fame 

 range is another apartment, called the Fever Room. 

 In the oppofite range is the houfe infirmary, with 

 feparate wards for the men and women ; where the 

 fick and infirm are lodged under the care of nurfes, 

 and attended by the apothecary of the houfe. In 

 furgical cafes, the patients are generally fent to the 

 county infirmary. 



The chaplain reads morning and evening prayers 

 in the chapel every day, when all the paupers, both 

 men, women, and children, attend ; and on Sunday 

 afternoons he reads prayers and preaches. 



The advantages of this inflitution became appa- 

 rent in a very fhort time after it was commenced. 

 Notwithftanding the heavy expences neceifarily at- 

 tending an eflabliffiment of this nature, the inhabit- 

 ants of the different pariflies found that even during 



the 



