On defences against epidemic visitations.

  • Chadwick, Edwin, 1800-1890.
Date:
[1856?]
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Credit: On defences against epidemic visitations. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    7 cr 7^ —'i ^JL L ON DEFENCES AGAINST EPIDEMIC VISITATIONS. Last week, Mr. Edwin Chadwiok paid a visit to the neighbourhood of Salisbury, and, by invitation, examined the new drainage works in that city. On Wednesday, there was a city meeting, to hear an address from him on those works, and on the means of meeting epidemic visitations. The Mayor was in the chair, and the meeting was attended by the members for the city, the clergy, and local medical anthorities, together with the chief inhabitants of the city. Mr. Chadwick said:— Being on a visit to my honourable friend, Mr. Marsh, your member, I respond to an invitation given to me to express an opiiiisn as to the sanitary position of your ancient city to meet any extraor- dinary or ordinary epidemic visitations, and as to how it may be served therein by your new and com- pleted works of home and main drainage and of water supply, and as to what additional defences may be needed for the best protection of its popu- lation, against such scourges. In respect to the im- pending visitation of an extraordinary epidemic which has been believed to threaten Europe, whilst it is well to abate the tendency to panic, it is right, nevertheless, to consider seriously of preparations to meet it, for all preparations that might be made for it will serve, and are needed, for the prevention of the pestilential diseases we have always • with ns. The extraordinary epidemic which is ^spreading in Bussia is described as the plague, and the plague is now generally admitted to be an intense typhus. Medical officers who have served during plague visitations in the Levant have described to me typhus cases with buboes (which occasionally occur in this country during severe epidemic visits-