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dre threefold : 
“« I. To obviate the generation of dif- 
eafes : 
“ If. To prevent: the fpreading of 
them by contagion : 
«“ TIl. To fhorten the duration of ex- 
ifting difeafes ; and to mitigate their evils, 
by affording the neceflary aids and com- 
forts to thofe who labour under them. 
“* J. Under the firft head are compre- 
hended — the. infpeétion and improve- 
Ment of the general accommodations of 
the poor :—the prohibition of fuch habi- 
fations, as are fo clofe, noifome, or damp, 
as to be incapable of being rendered tole- 
Frably falubrious :—the removal of privies 
placed in improper fituations :—provifion 
for white-wathing and cleanfing the houfes 
of the poor, twice every year :—attention 
to their ventilation, by windows with 
open cafements, &c.:—the infpection of 
cotton-mills, or other fa€tories, at ftated 
feafons ; with regular returns of the con- 
dition, as to health, clothing, appearance, 
and behaviour, of the perfons employed 
in them; of the time allowed for their re- 
frefhment, at breakfaft and dinner; and 
of the accommodations of thofe who are 
parochial apprentices, or who are not 
under the immediate direétion of their 
parents or friends :—the limitation and 
regulation of lodging houfes; or the efta- 
blifhment of caravanferas for paffengers, 
or thofe who come to feek employment, 
unrecommended or unknown :—the efta- 
blifhment of public warm and cold baths : 
—provifion for particular attention to the 
cleaning the ftreets which are inhabited by 
the poor; and for the fpeedy removal of 
dung-hills, and every other fpecies of 
filth :—-the diminution, as far as is prac- 
ticable, of other noxious effluvia, fuch as 
rhofe which arife from the work-houfes 
of the fell-monger, the yards of the tan- 
ner, and the flaughter-houfes of the 
butcher :-—the fuperintendance of the fe- 
veral markets; with a view to the pre- 
vention of the fale of putrid flefh or fith, 
and of unfound flour, or other vegetable 
productions. 
‘J. Under the fecond general head are 
included—the fpeedy removal of thofe 
who are attacked with fymptoms of fever, 
from the cotton-mills, or faétories, to the 
habitations of their parents or friends; or 
t@ commodious houfes, which fhould be 
fet apart for the reception of the fick, in 
the different diftri€ts of Manche fter :—the 
requifite attentions to ‘preclude unneceflary 
esmmunications with the fick, in the 
houfes wherein they are confined; and 
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Account of the Coal Mines at Whitehaven. 
‘6 The objeéts of the Board of Health 
[May 
to the fubfequent changing and ventilation 
of their chambers, bedding, and apparel : 
—and the allowance of a fufficient time 
for perfeét recovery, and complete purifi- 
cation of their clothes, before they return 
again to their works, or mix with their- 
companions in labour. — 
«¢ ITE, Under the third head are compre - 
hended—medical attendance : — the care 
of nurfes:—and fupplies of medicine, 
wine, appropriate diet, fuel, and cloth- 
ing.” 
May, 1796. MANCUNIENSIS. 

To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
T* the laft volume of the Tranfaétions 
of the Royal Irifh Academy, there is a 
very intelligent fketch of the manner of 
working the coal-mines at Whitehaven, 
by Dr. Fifher. Perhaps fome of your 
readers may not diflike to compare it with 
an account of the fame mines, as they ap~ 
peared in 1765, contained in the Voyages 
Metallurgsques, of the late M. Fars. ¥ 
have often been furprized that the whole 
of this excellent work has not been tran- 
flated. It would furely be a very accepta- 
ble prefent to our Englifh mineralogifts.— 
A few notes refpeéting the Prefent State of 
thefe mines, are added [7x Italics] by 
May, 1796. CUMBRIENSIS. 
Coat MINES aT WHITEHAVEN. 
WHITEHAVEN is a fimal! well-built 
town, on the weftern coaft of Eng- 
land. Its principal trade is in coal, of 
which there are many mines in and near 
the town. They all belong to one indivi- 
dual, who poffeffes the royalty for an ex- 
tent of many mines. He caufes them to 
be wrought on his own account, and it Is 
faid that they yield him a clear annual 
revenue of 15,000]. From the top of the 
hill to the deepeft works in the mme, are 
about 120 fathoms. In this depth are 
reckoned twenty different beds of coal, 
not more than three [ four] of which, 
however, are workable. They have all 
their [ zwater level cour/e or} direction from 
north to fouth; and their inclination [or 
dip | to the weft ; with a dip of about one 
fathom in fix [erghr] or feven [xine]. 
The firft of the workable feams is fepa- 
rated from the fecond by about fifteen fa- 
thoms of rock. It isa ftony coal, of an 
inferior quality, from four [three] to five 
[ foxr and a balf] feet thick; and is 
wrovght only for the ufe of the falt- 
pans. 
The fecond feam is from feven to eight 
feet thick; it is divided by two different 
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