One physician will be able to superintend the process of Inoculation in a very great number of patients, provided he is assisted by a resident apothecary to receive his instruction, and to be at hand to assist on extraordinary emergencies.
Few drugs or medicines will be wanted; the expence therefore on these articles will be very trifling.
Few attendants on the sick will be necessary, and not so much as one under the character of a nurse; for there will always be a sufficient number of patients in so good a state of health, as to be able to attend on those who may require assistance; and it should be one condition of their admittance, that they should be willing to assist others when able, as they would wish to be attended themselves when they stand in need of it; and if this injunction is complied with, it may be expected that there will be a sufficient number in a state of health to perform this office for one another. The doing the heavy and dirty part of the work, the care of the children, the attendance of those who may have the disease more severely, and the business of the kitchen, will doubtless require a proper number of healthy maid-servants.
In respect to diet, as it will be chiefly of the vegetable and least expensive kinds of food, this will be a very moderate article in the œconomy of such an establishment.
On the Hospitals at Pancras.
The Hospitals for Small Pox in the natural way and Inoculation were instituted in 1746, and have been supported by voluntary subscription.
These Hospitals consist of two houses at a sufficient distance from each other, and in airy situations.
That for preparing the patients for inoculation at Pancras contains 100 beds; and that for receiving them when the disease appears, and for admitting those who are seized with the Small Pox in the natural way, in Cold Bath Fields, 130 beds.
All who are destitute of friends or money and are attacked with this disease, or are desirous of being inoculated, if seven years old or upwards, are proper objects of this charity.