Statements relative to the present prevalence of epidemic fever among the poorer classes of Glasgow : together with some suggestions, both for affording more adequate assistance to the sick, and for checking the farther progress of the contagion in a letter, addressed to the Honourable, the Lord Provost of Glasgow / by Richard Millar.

  • Millar, Richard.
Date:
1818
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Credit: Statements relative to the present prevalence of epidemic fever among the poorer classes of Glasgow : together with some suggestions, both for affording more adequate assistance to the sick, and for checking the farther progress of the contagion in a letter, addressed to the Honourable, the Lord Provost of Glasgow / by Richard Millar. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    demic. Without arrogating to myself, in the slightest degree, any superior portion of fore¬ knowledge or intelligence, 1 may safely say that I foretold what was to happen, at least eight months ago, as well as communicated my appre¬ hensions to various individuals, some of them in municipal authority, and in terms, too, always the stronger, the more I observed the fever to in¬ crease in frequency. Similar representations were without doubt, made by others; and the danger that threatened the community, as well as the distress of the lower orders, could not fail to be strongly impressed on the minds of those in power, by the incessant, and daily applications, made to them, from the sick, for letters of ad¬ mission into the Infirmary, Still, however, it was long before any material step was taken to oppose the evil. At last, about the middle of November, a request was made, by authority, to the district Surgeons, both Consulting, and Ordinary, and to myself in quality of district Physician, that wTe should meet and draw up a report, of which it was the professed object to point out such measures as might, at once, afford more ade¬ quate relief to the sufferers, and, at the same time, be of sufficient power, if possible to extinguish the contagion. Such Report was accordingly