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From: robert stacey <>
Subject: Re: [Q-R] Quakers in Clinton County Infirmery 1880
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2011 01:27:50 -0700
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Margate Sea Bathing Infirmary

[image: Postcard of the Infirmary]The Margate Sea Bathing Infirmary was
founded in 1791 by Dr John Coakley Lettsom, a Quaker physician, taking its
first patients in 1796. It was originally known as the General Sea-Bathing
Infirmary, but by 1831 was being referred to as the Royal Sea-Bathing
Infirmary. Its patients were generally treated for scrofula, a term
originally applied to tuberculous disease of the lymphatic glands but later
extended to include other forms of tuberculosis affecting the abdomen, bones
and joints.

The Infirmary was ostensibly “for the benefit of the Diseased Poor”, its law
XVIII reading “No persons shall be deemed objects of this Charity, but such
whose diseases require Sea-air or Sea-bathing, and are really necessitous”.
How rigorously this rule was applied is questionable:
aletter<http://freepages.family.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~stanier/81.html#letter>;
sent
by a patient in 1829 contains the lines *“I did not get into the Infirmary
the day I expected, and by when I had paid my Lodging and other little
things I found myself very poor, But Mr. Turner told me you wished him to
advance me some, so he has given me another sovereign, which I hope will be
sufficient”*, which does not suggest someone “really necessitous”. To see
the approximate value of the
sovereign<http://freepages.family.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~stanier/N-Units.html>;,
see the 1827 entries in the table of annual
earnings<http://freepages.family.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~stanier/N-Money.html#1710>;
.

On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 4:37 PM, Anne Watkins <>wrote:

> I think an "infirmary" in the 1880s was a worhkouse for the poor, which had
> dormitories for the inhabitants. My family, Whinery/Rudduck were active in
> Clinton Co., OH 1820-c1860, before moving on to Huntington Co., IN.
> Anne
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dale Harguess" <>
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> Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2011 2:50 PM
> Subject: [Q-R] Quakers in Clinton County Infirmery 1880
>
>
> >I was just trying to locate some of my Hoskins ancestors and I found them
> > all living together in the 1880 Census in the Clinton County Ohio
> > Infirmery. There were numerous families with Quaker names on the same
> > page. Does anyone know anything about this? From what I can determine
> it
> > looks like the husband was dead but the wife was there with two of her
> > three
> > children.
> > I am puzzled by this. Was there some sort of epidemic in the community
> > that
> > caused so many families to be together in an Infirmery?
> > Dale in California
> >
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