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<p n="406">September 1784</p>
<p n="407">The Governour of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55609_geo273">House of Correction</rs>
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at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55609_geo274">Clerkenwell</rs>
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<lb></lb>
having laid before the Court a number of Printed papers of<lb></lb>
which the following are Copies vizt.</p>
<p n="408">"Sir</p>
<p n="409"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Letter from <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55609_n409-1">Wm.<lb></lb>
Shipley</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55609_occ138">Esqr</rs>
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. re-<lb></lb>
lative to an infec-<lb></lb>
-tious fever in the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55609_geo275">Goal at Maidstone</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in Kent</note>
"The County Goal at Maidstone being much<lb></lb>
crowded with Prisoners, an infectious fever broke out among<lb></lb>
them, which increased to a great degree and carried off many<lb></lb>
As an alarm became general lest the distemper might spread;<lb></lb>
a philosophical Society of Gentlemen turned their thoughts to<lb></lb>
such remedies as might be adequate to the mischief. The means<lb></lb>
which were in consequence adopted with most apparent effect<lb></lb>
are those which are hereunto annexed. Presuming they may be<lb></lb>
equally beneficial in other places the Society have resolved to<lb></lb>
Submit the following to your observation, and should any better<lb></lb>
methods have occurred to you, would be obliged by an account<lb></lb>
of them directed to</p>
<p n="410">"<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55609_n410-1">William Shipley</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55609_occ139">Esqr</rs>
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.<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55609_geo276">"Maidstone</rs>
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, Kent</p>
<p n="411">"To purify close infected places as Goals Hospitals<lb></lb>
Etc communicated to the Committee appointed to<lb></lb>
Superintend the Goal by</p>
<p n="412">T. Day Surgeon<lb></lb>
Maidstone January 25th. 1784</p>
<p n="413"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">preventative <obscured></obscured>
</note>
"Take of Rue, Wormwood, Sage, Lavender, Mint, and<lb></lb>
Rosemary each an hand ful put them altogether into a Gallon of<lb></lb>
the best Vinegar, and let it boil, and while boiling, let it be thrown to<lb></lb>
all parts of the Room (viz boiling, Walls Etc) by a Garden Engine<lb></lb>
that has a Fan or Rose that will divide the Liquor into very small<lb></lb>
Streams. After which the Room is to be well dried with a Brazier<lb></lb>
while the Window next the external Air is open and all the<lb></lb>
interior openings stopt; then a little Camphire may be carried<lb></lb>
in the Room burning in a Fire Shovel"</p>
<p n="414"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">N.B.</note>
If the room has the advantage of a Fire place the Ingredients may be<lb></lb>
boiled there and suffered to continue boiling sometime, while the Steam<lb></lb>
is conveyed into the room.</p>
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