Letter to the General Court of Contributors of the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, containing observations on the minutes of evidence, and on the report of the committee ... / by a contributor.

Date:
1818
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Credit: Letter to the General Court of Contributors of the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, containing observations on the minutes of evidence, and on the report of the committee ... / by a contributor. 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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    bility of contagion being conveyed from one part of the Infirmary to another; and some means should be fallen upon to purify the body-clothes of Fever Patients, before they are permitted to leave the House. There is still another department in the In- firmary, an inferior one, it is true, but one of great importance to the Hospital, which also stands much in need of reform. I mean the office of Janitor or Porter to the Infii’mary; for, upon the vigilance and good conduct of the person who fills it, depends much of the soj briety and regidarity of the Patients and Nur- ses in every ward of the Hospital. It is consist- ent with the knowledge of every Student, who has, of late years, attended the Infirmary, that the duties of the Porter have been most negli- gently and incorrectly performed. No patient, or his friends, who may have wished to smuggle . in food or drink of any kind, have, for many years, met with any difficulty at the door of that House, and abundance of evidence could be brought, were it necessary, to prove, that one of the persons employed as Porter has been long chiefly occupied in conveying liquor into the In- firmary from the spirit-shops in the neighbour-