Reasons for establishing a sea bathing infirmary, on the western coast, for the benefit of the poor : addressed to thr governors of medical charities, to the Poor Law guardians, and to the friends of the poor ... : with an appendix, containing the opinions of various eminent medical authorities / by J.K. Walker.

Date:
1840
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Credit: Reasons for establishing a sea bathing infirmary, on the western coast, for the benefit of the poor : addressed to thr governors of medical charities, to the Poor Law guardians, and to the friends of the poor ... : with an appendix, containing the opinions of various eminent medical authorities / by J.K. Walker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    PURPOSES OF A ® Ik T IH1 D INI © DNFORMARY, ON THE WESTERN COAST. The necessity of an establishment to extend the advantages of sea bathing to the poor, has long been felt by medical men, who are conversant with the diseases of the working classes. It is well known to those who are connected with our medical charities, that the poor are peculiarly exposed to certain varie- ties of disease most speedily and effectually relieved by a residence on the sea coast. To some the use of warm sea water baths may be necessary, to others bathing in the open sea, or even sea air alone may be sufficient. To the poor however these benefits are unattainable. There can be no doubt, that manj- lives are annually sacrificed, which in all probability might be prolonged by the aid of a Sea Bathing Infirmary, and many a limb which under existing circumstances is lost, might be saved, and many a cripple have the tree use of his extremities restored. Those who have in any degree attended to the afflic- tions of their indigent fellow-creatures in the crowded population of a manufacturing district, must have B