A succinct account of the contagious fever of this country, exemplified in the epidemic now prevailing in London; with the appropriate method of treatment as practised in the House of Recovery. To which are added observations on the nature and properties of contagion. Tending to correct the popular notions on this subject, and pointing out the means of prevention / By Thomas Bateman.

  • Bateman, Thomas, 1778-1821.
Date:
1818
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Credit: A succinct account of the contagious fever of this country, exemplified in the epidemic now prevailing in London; with the appropriate method of treatment as practised in the House of Recovery. To which are added observations on the nature and properties of contagion. Tending to correct the popular notions on this subject, and pointing out the means of prevention / By Thomas Bateman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the various articles of bedding, clothing, and furniture, which may have already been con¬ taminated* The most effectual mode of ac¬ complishing this object, is the establishment of a House of Recovery, or of separate wards in hospitals and workhouses, or of some other temporary dwelling, where these institutions do not exist, to which infected persons should be immediately removed ; and their own ha¬ bitation, or apartment, should then be well ventilated, washed, and the walls and ceiling, when that can be done, washed with hot lime. The bedding and the apparel left behind should be washed ; and the process of fumi¬ gation should also be employed in the apart¬ ments, with a view to destroy the contagion adhering to the furniture ; and those parts of the clothes and bedding which cannot be cleaned by washing, should be exposed to the same process. When contagious fever spreads among the poor, in small places, where no public institutions afford the means of sepa¬ rating the infected, the measures of ventilation, cleanliness, and fumigation, and the restric¬ tion, of all intercourse to the necessary attend¬ ants, should be enforced as far as practicable.