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September 1784
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The Governour of the
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having laid before the Court a number of Printed papers of
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which the following are Copies vizt.
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Shipley
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. re-
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lative to an infec-
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-tious fever in the
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in Kent
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"The County Goal at Maidstone being much
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crowded with Prisoners, an infectious fever broke out among
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them, which increased to a great degree and carried off many
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As an alarm became general lest the distemper might spread;
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a philosophical Society of Gentlemen turned their thoughts to
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such remedies as might be adequate to the mischief. The means
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which were in consequence adopted with most apparent effect
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are those which are hereunto annexed. Presuming they may be
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equally beneficial in other places the Society have resolved to
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Submit the following to your observation, and should any better
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methods have occurred to you, would be obliged by an account
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of them directed to
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William Shipley
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"To purify close infected places as Goals Hospitals
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Etc communicated to the Committee appointed to
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Superintend the Goal by
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T. Day Surgeon
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Maidstone January 25th. 1784
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preventative
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"Take of Rue, Wormwood, Sage, Lavender, Mint, and
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Rosemary each an hand ful put them altogether into a Gallon of
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the best Vinegar, and let it boil, and while boiling, let it be thrown to
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all parts of the Room (viz boiling, Walls Etc) by a Garden Engine
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that has a Fan or Rose that will divide the Liquor into very small
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Streams. After which the Room is to be well dried with a Brazier
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while the Window next the external Air is open and all the
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interior openings stopt; then a little Camphire may be carried
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in the Room burning in a Fire Shovel"
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N.B.
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If the room has the advantage of a Fire place the Ingredients may be
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boiled there and suffered to continue boiling sometime, while the Steam
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is conveyed into the room.
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