The mayor, aldermen, assistants, medical faculty, and other citizens of Natchez humbly solicit the attention of the legislature of this territory to the following memorial
- Corporate Author
- Natchez (Miss.)
- Published
- [Natchez] : [Publisher not identified], [1804]
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (1 sheet)
- Additional Creators
- Mississippi. General Assembly
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- Dated Dec. 22, 1804.
Begins: For the promptitude and zeal with which your honorable body has already manifested to effect the establishment of a hospital in our city, we ... return you ... thanks.
Presents for the guidance of the legislature data concerning the prevalence of disease in Natchez, particularly among transient river boatmen, and estimates of the cost of building and maintaining the hospital.
The Natchez Hospital was established according to an act of the General Assembly of the territory, passed Jan. 18, 1805. - Reviewed/Cited In
- Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints, 1361
McMurtrie. Bibl. of Mississippi imprints, no. 30
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