An account of the plague which raged at Moscow, in 1771 / By Charles de Mertens ... Translated from the French, with notes [by R. Pearson].

  • Mertens, Charles de, 1737-1788.
Date:
1799
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Credit: An account of the plague which raged at Moscow, in 1771 / By Charles de Mertens ... Translated from the French, with notes [by R. Pearson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ ;I22 3 treatife. By putting them in feparate rooms along with their nurfes, the contagion was prevented from fpreading*. I had thus the happinefs of refcuing from death about one hundred and fifty children -f, brought to the quarantine-houfe after the month of Octo¬ ber. In the Spring of 1772, every thing was reftored to its former footing. * As it was poffible for the plague, though it declined in the town, to have been kept up in this quarantine-houfe by the children that were daily brought there and by the lying-in women ; in order to provide againft fuch an event and in compliance with the orders of the Emprefs, Mr. de Durnowo and myfelf prefented a memoir, containing a detail of the regulations and precautions above-men¬ tioned, to the Committee of Health, who were pleafed to fignify their approbation thereof. (Here follows in the original, the letter of approbation from the Committee of Health, which though it is highly flattering to the author, is unimportant to the reader, and is therefore omitted by the Tranflator.) f In the beginning of the year 1772,1 had the remainder of the children who had been received into the quayahtine- houfe, admitted, a few at a time, into the Great Hofpital. Their number, including orphans, whofe parents had been carried off by the plague, and new-born infants, amounted to one hundred and fifty. THE END.