MISCELLANIES. 



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that, when patched and cleaned, 

 {hey may be again employed. 



"V. A medical inspector 

 shoald be appointed to see these 

 regulations executed, at a com- 

 petent salary; together with cer- 

 tain rewards according to the 

 success of his measures: — he 

 should be entitled to a reward of 



for each family, which has been 

 preserved from infection by his 

 attention, when one in it had bt;en 

 attacked by the fever. 



" VI. Each poor family, whose 

 house has been cleansed by tkem- 

 selves as here directed (according 

 to a certificate from the inspector 

 which is to specify every circum- 

 stance above-mentioned in the 

 3rd regulation) shall be entitled 

 to a reward of : and, if the 

 remainder of the family continue 

 uninfected for six weeks after the 

 first fever-patient has been re- 

 moved to the hospital, the said 

 family must be entitled to a farther 

 reward of . The inspector 

 shall give the family a promissory 

 note, or a certiticate, for this 

 purpose. 



" VII. The inspector must 

 kee|> a register of infectious 

 fevers, upon the same plan as was 

 executed with success, fur six 

 years, by the inspector of the 

 Small Pox Society at Chester ; 

 in whicl: is entered, in separate 

 columns of a table, 1st, the pa- 

 tient's name; 2d, street ; 3rd, oc- 

 cupation ; 'ith, when the fever 

 began ; .5th, number ill of fever 

 in each family ; 6th, date of in- 

 formation ; 7th, date of removal ; 

 8th, whence infected ; 9th, when 

 washed and aired; 10th, family 

 infected, or preserved; llth, 

 rf'gulations observed or trans- 

 gressed. 

 . V«L. LX. 



" VIII. Let a copy of these 

 regulations be printed upon one 

 page, and be placed in every 

 house infected by a fever, and ia 

 every house in the neighbour- 

 hood, which is in danger of 

 receiving the infection. By such 

 instructions, poor people will be 

 enabled to give timely notice to 

 the society so as to avert the 

 dreadful calamities which they 

 would otherwise suffer. 



" The benefit of these regula- 

 tions to preserve poor families 

 from all the variety of wretch- 

 edness occasioned by infectious 

 fevers, will be exact])' in propor- 

 tion to the spirit and punctuality 

 with which they are executed. 



" The zealous, judicious, and 

 successful exertions of the Board 

 of Health at Manchester, ia 

 1796, afforded the fullest con- 

 firmation of the principles and 

 the practical conclusions, vvhich 

 Dr. Haygarth has detailed in 

 his letter, lately published and 

 addressed to Dr. Perceval, on 

 the prevention of infectious 

 fevers, p. 108, 109, HO. The 

 facts there stated prove, be- 

 yond all controversy, that the 

 regulations above recommended 

 if faithfully executed, will sup- 

 press infectious fevers in a most 

 wonderful manner. But it is 

 manifest that fever-wards, for 

 the reception of poor people, 

 unaided by measures to purity 

 their habitations, will answer this 

 purpose in a very imperfect 

 manner. 1th May, 1802" 



In Chester, as in most large 

 towns, the typhus fever had long 

 prevailed, but was generally con- 

 fined to the dwellings of the poor. 

 In 1783, it was communicated, 

 and was fatal to some persons of 

 2 R higher 



