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London, England, 1819-10-08 00:00:00

Is there increasid cleanliness in tfiet district ?—More
think in Pent than Constaittiniillle.
What do you mean by infeetiou ?—Disease produced by a
contagious state of the atmosphere; an epimemie state of
the atmosphere produced by various cum.; effluvia, vinous
effluvia, or by coutact with a particular tints.
Have you ever beard of the plague being in Great Ilritain
or Ireland'—Yes/ both; dhring the denser of IABS, in
Charles lll.'s time. There is an order iu Council by the Ho-
nourable Privy Council, present lie Lord Chamberlain, 4he
Earl of Bath, Mr. Treasurer, Mr. Vice•Cliamberlasu, si:l/
Mr. Secretary Morris, ordering the College of Pln swims to
suggest measurer, soil give directious; to prevent the spread-
ing the infection of the plague.
DI. you ronfider that was the real Levant plagne
Why'—At that Orrind, as far m I have been able to trace
from a swirly of old authors, listre was scarcely such a
thing as a comiiiimi p.estrr. The privies iselb a. romolated
under every house, probably not emptit.l for yeses ; and au
older was given to empty them once it month. That otde r
originated, I believe, in the College of Physicians %fin the
spreading of she plague.
As you do nut consoler that to have hero what is pi u-
prely termed the Levant plagmr, to what do you werrilie
',Amos iu 166.5!—Tis the narrowness of the sheets, arco_
mutation of filth, and want of ventilation; and pri.1.41.11 a
diseased constitution of the atmosphere at that period.
Then you consider it was 1101 tee Leeson Wavle; iliat it
was islet itnpustrit, but that it nrigiosted is Englaud .?—l'es ;
1 la lieve Him it originate.: in &seam!.
Do you found your lifi.a of its out being the Levant
plague, from any historical description, oemailogiesl Chas
racier of the disease ?—I babe not been ebte to trace ant
decided fact of it. imporlatims ; a circumstance of see morn
importance sad gen. inleri id, if tine, would, I think,
leave been marked by
the time: I link upon the liarroviiii-sis of Ike streets, the
Illth of the city, the want of common Mons, and the shoe
of Ike atmosphere at that period, 1? have bre% the eannlinnl
but particularly the west of COMMON sanrini.

Was it atissuled with buboes and ea/boucles ?—Yes, as
ta► as I am able to Irani i iu tome cams; nut generally.
hid pm ever OVIE cases Of typhus encoded with !entrees
—Yes, iu the fitst instant', its "Issue isigaismatury (mural-
halms*.

freoneatly?—,Nut frequently.
Hare you .lCu the 141611111 it' 110 typhus have seen an
enlereenrent in the Rums ; the ellrbitncle to gruefal cootie
tira the bent. n the I.lBun Icier&

Have yen rims. !wand of the plague in Great Britain and
behind 'deice 1665?—There was a disease in DuLim
something similar, but 1 have uut any eurrect
iuforma-
lion as to it,

lu what year?-1 do not know manly; I believe ioon af-
ter tlw plaglie in London, but I am not sure.
Do yon consider that nor quarantine ritahlishments have
kept the plague from being introduced into Grest Britain or
Ireland?—No, I do out; I cannot my they have. From
having been requently tinder quarantine restraint myself. I
bale niaili it my boldness to visit bidet of the Istareitos
Itr-
tween Gibraltar and Constantinople; but the source of din.
ease Is more frequently sera akwag the Greek vessels that
carry cargoes to Marwilles, of which there was s meat many
sailed soon after the blot kaile by the British squadion under
Sir John Duckworth.

If plague infection was intreidoced into hales of gnodu in
the Mediterranean, do you suppose that the pr, mit Native-
'letters aad opportunities at tioarautine Cbtablisit.aledill itt
G-eat Britain, altdielent to 11111Ify theta from the infection ?
consider the lazaretto•, as far as I am able to Irarte, par.
ticnlarly inefficient in fitment for that pus pu4e; I intim
with respect to ventilatiou and liallalt.
no you consider that she Levant plague can (1654 tit a
British atistiaphere?—l thick that is very douldfial ; but
I think there is great eutoutageineol to noise dem

■ny is imported min the lazarettos. There are some of the
lazaretto ships, as I ins given to undrritaiiii, where the
shingle ballast has not hien shifted fbr many years; Min in
many instances fevers Hare brill produced, an•l 1111 f.
this ease, even in our men of war; the tome of war for-
merly used to be lostlateil with shingles; sosi Wining Chia
ballast, it his produced freer In 14 vend of the slops; thpt I
have seen myself, Ind it is *ell recorded.
What kiitl of fever!—The usual fever df the ►tation they
bapprned to be on, sir the place dory were at; not "the
plague. It is a well-known feet, established among in iri-
time people, that the lwalth of our fleets, nor Worms iu
transpurta, and seamen in merchant yr awls, 'hive all riots
in proportion ill the d.gree of licit...cairns at which we have
arrived in tleantiness unit
Have you in your it.rloiries, ever heard of a plazne case
having arrived at or torso seem in any la zo cm) in them 111.
lain ?—Never. _ _ .

Do you siot.sesppose, that if the infection of plague had
been imported in any bales of from It.e Meths, hams's,
which were opened for the purpose of bring rentilati it at
lazarettos, Bud if the plague bad existed tliscriii, slid was
cootagions, those expoigaturs would become themselves in-
fected with the plague?—Certainly.
Would the circunlstauce of pligue out having h,cis seen
for so many years in Gent Britain, or its laza►ettos, give
sufficient antfidruee for concluding that the 'Mogur house*
exist Iu a British atmosphere shoot.' think it would toot
give soffit:Mot confidence; it would create ghat alarm if
knows to exist.
You still suppose it ssitlit exist think that is a slosh.-
ful
Is not plague, in plague cavalries, periodical to its bees-
wing and end ?"..*Yes.
What is the state of atmosphere atilt yob conceive Cam-
pitiable and nut compatible with the eminence of plague ?--
I look upon it that its cold dry weather, the pligue does out
so frequently exist. Ise hut weather, after Brosts, whew the
rivers, such as the Nile, hake oeerflowed, sod left marshes
and And., the action of the nos in sauna of seek taarebee
and moist grosud always produces disease, and frequently
the Levant pligue.
What sort of temperature do you morbid, Necessa►y to the
mistimes of plague !—le the cases of. plague I sate at too-
ataallaople, tile tberowitneter el.iod *boat the frehhog pulsar,
from 1 I to 30 ; it was iss the oleic*.
MM the plague preveleat at that slats of lellybrature !
No. It oda not; but then nitre alesys ebame !NOS three.
Theo wen gams errs during Owl orate of the year !
There ems *bhp *sae easel at enastaalistopie.
rn be eiaan•rd.)