@article{ref1,
title="Committee for the Relief of Distressed Seamen: correspondence from the Admiralty in 1818-19",
journal="Postgraduate medical journal",
year="2007",
author="Cook, G. C.",
volume="83",
number="975",
pages="54-58",
abstract="The Seamen's Hospital Society, which was to become a great Victorian charity, with the object of caring for both the physical and spiritual health of seafarers (most merchant seamen) in the Port of London, was founded at a meeting on 8 March 1821. However, it is not widely known that it had a temporary predecessor--The Committee for the Relief of Distressed (Destitute) Seamen. Ready cooperation was received from the Admiralty in most of its affairs, but &quot;disposal&quot; of many of these &quot;redundant&quot; mariners proved to be a somewhat difficult matter.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0032-5473",
doi="10.1136/pgmj.2006.054296",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/pgmj.2006.054296"
}