1863 CARLISLE HOUSE OF RECOVERY Subscription receipt for year for Sale

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1863 CARLISLE HOUSE OF RECOVERY Subscription receipt for year:
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HOUSE OF RECOVERY,

CARLISLE. STATISTICS OF TYPHUS FEVER.

Among the charitable institutions of this city there are none more useful, beneficial, or more important than the House of Recovery. Twenty-one years have now elapsed since this institution was first opened for the reception and cure of persons affected with contagiouis fevers, and every year has evinced many proofs of its great usefulness. The spreading of contagious fevers has been frequently prevented, and the liealth of the inhabitants of this city and neighboourhood essentially promoted. 1,756 patients have been admitted into the House of Recovery, all of whlom were placed in well ventilated rooms, were properly bathed, and dressed in clean linen of the lhouse, were supplied with the best medicines and provisions, and many of them with wine and other expenisive articles. Clothes were furnished them wlhile they remained in the house, and they hlad the regilar attendanice of nurses as well as gratuitous attemidance and advice. During the first year typlhuis fever has been sinusuially prevalent; more patients labouring under the disease having been admitted into the lhouse this year than in any preceding one, with the exceptioni of the year 1838, in which the nuimber of admissions amounted to 265. On December 1, 1810, thirteen patients affected with typhuis fever remained in the house under treatment, all of whom recovered. 169 patients affected with the same fever have been since admitted, 19 of whom were brought from the couintry, and 3 from the workhouises of this city and mieiglhbouirlhood. Maniy proofs of the malady being propagated by cointagioni have been met witl in the lastyear. Several patients referred their illness to contagion; and it coul(l be distinctly traced, in many instances, from one patienit to another. In other cases, cold, wet, or fatigue were assigned as the cause, though these patients might also have been exposed to the influence of contagion, withouit being aware of the fact. The mortality in typhus fever is greatest above fifty years of age, and least under ten years, which accords wvith the experience of previous years. Youth is much snore favourable for recovery fiom fever thanl advanced age. Individuals under ten years of age appear to have tlhe best chanice of recovery. On the whole, a less nuimber of deaths, in proportion to the recoveries, has occurred in the past thani in the preceding year. In time past year the proportion is I in 8.t)4, in the preceding year I in 5.14. The proportion of deaths from typhlls fever in the past year is really less than 1 in 8, as shown in the above table, two female patients having been sent to the house in the last stage of pulmonary consumption, to which complainit, more than to fei-er, their deaths may be fairly attributed. In several instances the fever spread to persons residing in the same house, anid several members of families were admitted as patients in succession. In one family five persons, in another six, and in a third family ten persons were admitted into the fever house, affected with typhus fever, in succession. An early separation and removal of the first infected would probably have prevented the disease spreading, anid saved many persons much affliction and suiflering, as a very small proportion of those who are filly exposed to the contagion of fever escape the disease.- 1841 Carlisle Journal.