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Excerpt from Essays on the Venereal Disease and Its Concomitant Affections
At an average, about five hundred and twenty patients have been annually relieved at the lock Hog. Pital, since its first institution m 1746; the greater part of whqm were admitted m the most wretched state of disease and misery, without resource and with. Out h0pe. There are ninetyesix beds, for the ag gommodatien of persons of both sexes: Beside which, an institutio'n, supported by a separate cbntributlon, was establiéhed in the year 1787, under the title of'the lock asylum, for the reception of penitent females cured m the hospital; where they are clothed, maintained, employed, and instructed, till they can be restored to their friends, or t9 the community, m a way of honest: mdustzy. On every accouht, the Lock Hospital and Asylum are entitled to the liberal assistance of the public; but especially, is they are conducted upon such prjn ciples as'must Operategowerfully against the progress of vice, and as an encouragement to virtuous habits.
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