ABSTRACT
One of the causes to which the progress of the disease is very generally ascribed, the crowds of wretched mendicants, by whom the country has been traversed in all directions, affords a melancholy proof and illustration of this opinion. In fine, under the existing circumstances, the committee do not conceive it necessary to burden either the public or individuals with any contribution for a local fever hospital. Observance of personal cleanliness, and keeping as much as possible in the open air until fever subsides. The physicians would therefore propose, that the number of beds for fever patients be increased in different quarters of the city, proportioned respectively to their poverty and population. Inspectors to visit houses from whence notices of fever have been sent; also particularly to visit all suspected houses in their division, and to give in a return of such houses to the governors of the respective hospitals in their districts.
