Volume 1

Medical reports, on the effects of water, cold and warm, as a remedy in fever and other diseases : whether applied to the surfane [!] of the body, or used internally.

  • Currie, James, 1756-1805.
Date:
1814
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Credit: Medical reports, on the effects of water, cold and warm, as a remedy in fever and other diseases : whether applied to the surfane [!] of the body, or used internally. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    mended, that in all cases where fire-engines, or steam-engines are necessarily employed in the town or its vicinity, the burning of smoke should be enforced, as well as in all other practicable cases where large volumes of smoke are emitted.— They pointed out the necessity of enforcing cleanliness in the streets, to which end an im- provement of the pavement was represented to be essential; and they particularly advised a general review of the common sewers, and an improvement of their structure, on the principles of a report on this particular subject, addressed by them to the Mayor and Magistrates, in 1788. They further advised, that effectual provision should be made for draining the grounds within the liberties, and particularly to the north of the town. Repeated remonstrances (I, quote the words of the report) have been made for the last twenty years, on the collections of standing water, includ- ing filth of every kind, which are suffered to re- main in the district which extends along: the ter- mination of the streets from St. Paul's square to Byrom-street, and to which the low fevers, which in the autumnal months especially, infest these streets, are principally to be imputed. These remonstrances have been passed over, on the ground, as we are informed, that the proprietors of the lands will not agree to the plan neces- sary for draining them. It is not to be endured, that