to have been kept up in this quarantine-house by the children that were
daily brought there and by the lying-in women; in order to provide
against such an event and in compliance with the orders of the Empress,
Mr. _de Durnowo_ and myself presented a memoir, containing a detail of
the regulations and precautions above-mentioned, to the Committee of
Health, who were pleased to signify 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
Translator.)
[81] In the beginning of the year 1772, I had the remainder of the
children who had been received into the quarantine-house, admitted, a
few at a time, into the Great Hospital. Their number, including orphans,
whose parents had been carried off by the plague, and new-born infants,
amounted to one hundred and fifty.
Transcriber's Notes
page viii & ix: the four items listed have been expanded from the
original compact paragraph.
page 29: Pogaretsky ==> Pogaretzky
page 44: accompained ==> accompanied
page 75: petechia ==> petechiæ
footnote 5: Samoïlowoitz ==> Samoïlowitz
footnote 27: Pogaretsky ==> Pogaretzky
footnote 33: Russel ==> Russell
footnote 36: Russel ==> Russell
footnote 59: sly ==> fly
footnote 59: hurful ==> hurtful