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PLTITIONS.

Ofiteredi by Ilse Norse of (Ammons, to be printed,
3d Jesus, 1918.

The Committee to whom the several Petitions of Ribbon
Weavers of Coventry and Leek, of Silk W of Mac-
clesfielal and Reading, and of Silk Manufacturers of Mac-
clesfield, were referitil; and who were empowered to re-
tain these Olaiervatious thereupon to the House, together
with the Minutes of the Evitleuca takes' before them;
have, piii %isnot to the Ostler of the House. examined the
matters of the said Prtitimih, and have agreed upon the
following Report :
Your Coinimitee beg to state, that they have proceeded at
great length in the itivestigntion of the several Petit* re-
ferred to theist, nail in the eaansinati 4444 a of 8/hill...Uß; and
have reported the result of such investigatiou and exams-
ilailllBll. 81111 re!t-r the Otiose theielo.
Your Committee also report, that it appears by the exa-
-4444 s, that the Silk, and Ribbon Weavers us particular,
are and have been for some time pa-t hollering great priva-
tions and dialect's, arising out of inadequate wages; that
stich distresses have had the effect of reducing thou.:ands of
them to the necessity of seeking parochial mil, and have in
autesquence increased the pour rate, especially in the pa-
rishes in Coventry and in the chino,/ of Warwick, where the
ribbon trade is the staple manufacture, to an extent too
burdensome to be much !insp.'. borne.
That the low rate of wag.' complained of by the Pelt-
iiollPf/1 is not a 11111•11181.11C8 of the want of trade, it
beets proved to cunt Committee, that there are 118 many talk
Roods, particularly ribbons, uuw making as at any former
lime.

That a system of half-pay apprenticeship loas beta ream tea
to, which has Incu attri,Jed w.th I:lino:I, ...pi r l uu.. ,

The great increase albite malady may, we think, be dated
pro try generally through the Island f he eprita g of 1811 ;
in some placer commencing with the . ha of March or
April, in others, not until July, even Aligns,. The
Reports of the Fever Hospitals of Cork and AV:of-dela,
clearly trace the greet increase of fcrer in these cities to
period much earlier; in Cork as for bark na the autumn r I
1818 ; in AVAterford to January, 1817. tVe navel tto the. t
reports particularly, because, as far as Whlp-rts theme Isere
and populous cities, they furnish, its detail, the most ready
mean, of judging accurately as to the progress and extent nf
the disease, from the mootkly tables of admissions and desths
which are annexed to them. From Delft st also, we have it e
monthly returns of that Fever Hospital, in which the et,
(trial increase is noted as commencing with the month of
August. Of limerick, where the disease appears to hate
raged very violently, we only know that nearly 2,8118 f.v, r
patents have been utidt r cure in the hospitals dining the
last year, and 7P4 to the sth of April of the pii st !eat .
With respect to Dublin, the vety accurate and detail( .1 I
port of the Medical Rutted, presented to the Lout: lieut."—
mint cm the 16111 of March kit, which we have it in r:.e
Appendix, together with several other ducionents, •to o •
the great and rapid weekly increase of I. vet. in ther•to,•l
from the Ist of September, 1817, when the vtiltiv airs /;,.•
of fever patients its all the hospitals aniu tttttt in 215., I.
the 28th of February, 1818, when it had rises, to 1.1101. and
on the 14th of March to 1,074, making an sit:legate of ad-
missions into all the Dublin Hospitals, which ft um time t,,
time had been fitted up fur their recepti tttt , of 7.451 Jurist::
a period of seven months. This repot t eviller. a's., 11.4:
nnai tttt si and laudable care and solicitude wills which the Ir•sti

Government has supplied outliersl and other atom:tame arid
accommodation to the diseased, in the stretropolra. Their
attention, however, has been extended to other parts of Irr _
land, ret will appear from the following. advertisement I,ula
fished the :30111 of September, 1817
Dublin Castle, 30th September, 1817.

, .
" Several applications for assistance havist; bei is maile
to the Lord Lieutenant, from districts of this esiiiitrx,
wherein contagious fever is still prevalent; and his Ex-
cellency being anxious to co-operate with those alto in,
making local efforts to check the progress of infection, in..l
to administer to the wants of the poorer classes of the iiih
imams who are suffering from fever, he has appointed
Committee of gentlemen of this city to meet at the Ni.-diroi
Board Office, for the purpose of receiving and la putting upon
such applications.
" The interference of Government Most necessarily lie
limited to those cases wherein it shall appear, from • rittesi
documents, that frier is still prevalent to an unusual
rx-
teut, and that kosoitals have been opened, or necJinono•fit.
tiou provided for the relief of the sick, by means of subsci,ii-
lions of the wealthier part of the community.
" In aid of such subscriptions, and on the remora:ll,l: .
lion of the Committee above-mciationed, the bird bet. tr-
uant will direct pre iiii iary aid to be granted, lo be is ;The .1
illicitly in counteracting the effects and checking the lon.
grass of infectious disease, and apportioned in scs
cording to the exigeticy of each particular case.
" Applications, accompanied by documents, atstirg the
number of sick accommodated, the MeBlll, plUtidt,l I:teir
relief, and other particulars of this nature, Rita, esse .1 14
The Committee, No. 5, Parliament-street,' may be
warded by post, undercover, to the Chu f Secrets, v,
Castle. (Signed) " ROBERT PEEL"

Your Committee are strongly impressed with an 'minim,
that public aid should still continue to be extend. it, arema,_
Mg to the judgment of the Executive Government, nu it e
terms on which it was offered by this advertisement ; and
that powers should be vested iu the Goverinueut
meat, fur that mirpose.
Of the extent 1• which the disease has prevailed. Ilo•
melancholy detail•• which we bare a'reatly given,may in Amt.e
thgree enable the House tojudee, wheu we add, that iii Omit
the number of fever patients Lt stated during the year
Ist December, 1817, to have amounted to
snit from that time to the 29ib of %larch last to :
deaths doting the preceding pet sod have been to the numb r
of admit.sitnis as 1 to 28. I,i Waterfnril in 1817. the num-
ber of admissions was more than 4000. lu Iteliaat, (ruin
May, 1817, to April, 1818, 1.450. 1.1 many parts of it,
country, too, it appears to have prevai'ed a. sy eats ntivei) ,
particularly in the vicinity of Moue, Male, aid Asa.u,
where, from a limited population, many looldr ep; e.sr
to have been afflicted, and in Armagh *trove s hi, übsat I•.
hare been sick at one time. As to the moil,' 1., 'stitch it
has affected the country parisheo, we annex ,tie note ieeonnt
ea calved in detail—that or Lough near Arnia;:la, whey.,
s.f a population of &MO, 1.111i9 have been ill, and Illy .1,411.$
a, one in ten. Fumy the ham of Dispenvarie • r ti. si its'a
Ifrucrnlly sliverred, we t. tat no detail..l a. cutest, oP s vet y
large past of Ireland, nor any :WI t IlAte .•f RI lite
entire con...tic., as Mayo and ..... ;31. except a st..l.met.l
that in thia latter county it hai prvfalled v. 1 v e.m.ost. rah.
11. a. CAUII4.IWeVI r hate no deubt, that is Litt' u 0 ,ac:. s 0t....• :a: •

'enrols existed, Mil notaLe et of tie poor most have nude, -
.gense very great suffering,. One of the causes Su a hide the
progress of slovenliest* is very generally aserilied, the crowd•
'of wretched asessdkeetta, by wl one she country La !peen tra-
versed in all theertions, affords • melancholy proof and
closers, los of ihisepiteisen.
The innetairy hen beg, much greater among the higher
rank. of society, whom the discs*, teas attacked, than in the
litionring cloaca; and the physteiats and oilier medical ■t-
t. minas, as well as the ckrey of different deitomesiationa,
have felt is destructive Sure is tench more than an will-
tiara proportion, as the discharge of duly, Knitter with
the dim. ~f humanity, exposed them peculisily to its
The esn•ot of the dimwit Wins in general in some degree
as far as we at premed roman isiforoisiion ; in
fiat, r very earsaiderahly indeed. Whether the diminution
may or may not be progressive, and is what degree, it is
rem olt to form •ny jailers's!! ; more especially Si it
abated far a time to break eat with renewed
ioleur• ; to she cities of Cork and Limerick 100, the nuns-
-1... rs to be out the inesease. Of the caries, to which we
ar► In triter • natedy su distressing and extensive. we can.
tint convey owe epistles more clearly than by adopting the
t treihle eximewid4lllll used by the Medical Board, dated I.t
May last, and traissmitted by Dr. Beaty. which are as fol.
suss An the health of she country at large is an object
of Snail inter.-at, I think it right to state, that by reports
now before roe, of a late date, from the Staff Medical
escicer• seenerinthtdinee the previews of Lagoa, id nosier,
Connaught, sod Ulster, as well as from * variety of !elicit
written l.y respectable medical correspondents, and con-
gealed • lib the army, it appears that typhus fever it settle-
r illy nn She decline. All these authorities, hiswrirer, rumen,'
in dwelling on the custinusace of the privations, nailer
Ilse lower orders in Ireland have reoffered an severely
f r snow time past, and to which the origin of the eziolillg
epidemic is very much owing; seal that cumbers of wawde►-
int' Irogg-im •re at present roassisg ova the face of the
enema, and appear us the Increase.
is rismie evident, therrhore, that fever will prevail, to a
rwal-r isr lesser degree, while these perdispaing causes eon.
hoer in operate so exteseleely, and that we must look be.
'nod medical juedgeseut and medical exertions, fur palliat-
lug sir removing the present heavy afflictioa. The wisdom
mil energy of ter Legislature, and of the Government, ewe,
pe.haos, do something is Ibis matter; bat it is very
mill In bind an effectual remedy fur poverty, the cease and
minininance of which are mainly to be ascribed to a rapidly
increasing ripalation. whilst the MONA of procuring pro-
ihirtive !shore sad employment fur the atultitente, instead
of advancing with some proportion, aa yet remains nearly
slat Lowry."
Beet anti! tease adequate means as be devised, for She re.
Moral of these evils, it becomes our duty to suggest such
inemores as appear to us immediately necessary to check
the progress, to mitigate its severity, as well as to secure So
the institations doused to its relief, due and adequate pro-
tattoo ; and with this view we offer to the Home the fol-
lowing recomeredatimsa:—

Ist. That the subscribers to Fever Hospitals be incorpo-
rated in like manner, awl with like powers as the subscribers
to Hoopes of !adviser, in Ireland now are.
?My. That the Gement Dispersal', Act Amnia ha
amended, and that the powers now possessed by Grand Ju-
ries of enmities to premed fur the support of such establish-
ments, be extended to coostles of cities, and comities of
towns
3.11 y. That open proof of a sum subscribed, and paid by
the subscriber', far the erection or hiring of, or attaching to,
any Dispensary a boos; to be applied to the reception of
Fever Patinas, sad upon medical certificate of the seeri-
Idly of providing aecommodatioa for such patients, it shall
be lawful for the Grand Jury to pretest a sons, equal in
amount to double the sum actually raised by subscription;
anti such further sum Ily for the support of the houses
on hired or erected, as shall sot exceed doable the amount
of the subscription actually raised fur their support.
ailely. That it is highly desirable that some exemptions
from the hearth sad window taxes should be granted In
lodging hunses, under certain regulations, so calculated as
to secure the beaefit of such exemptions to the persons who
'dere 'berries.
ithly. That it is expedient, in those eases wherein there is
tin Fever Hospital at prevent, that the Grand Jury should
have a power of presenting inch sass as they may think ne-
cessary for the coustructioa of oao Fever Hospital in each
county, in such sitsatioa as to the Grand Jury may meal
most desisahle
The Lord Lieutenant to have • power of issuing the rem
necessary fur the conalcaction of the Fever Hospital, to be
repaid by iastaleamda within the period of six years:
In eases where there is a Fever Hospital at resew', the
Gland Jury may present a sum for ealarging eir altering
stick hospital, if deemed Beeman; theses to be repaid in
like manlier.
Mthly. That in order to preserve the eonntry from the
spi railing ..f contagion, it is recommended. that on the fever
sivprarsisa in nay city, town, or district, under such circum-
stances as to warrant the apprehension of its more extended
isroartan, it would be proper that such city, town, or district,
he enabled to hold a meeting tinder the authority arose be
more magistrates, and to certify to the Lord Lie utmost
the necessity of conslitutint in such district a Huard of
Health, to emit Borate the continuance of such emergency,
to he composed of the members of Dispensary Esiabli-h-
-uiciiis, or Fever Hospitals, or a revisits 'somber of the
inure respectable parishioners and usediral men of such dis-
trict, where no Fever Hospital or Dispensary exists; who
should he aimed, temporarily, with more enlarged pore's
to abate and remove ,nnlsauces, and to check contagion, than
are extend' d to magistrates at present.
7thly. That the powers to be ialfinted temporarily, to
SDI b Hoard of Health be as follow
That they should have power to rleStilie all streets., lanes,
yards, and houses and to remove from thence all nuisances
piejndicial to health; to cleanse, fumigate, lout whitewash
isifected houses, and to destroy or cleanse tattled beds and
bedding, to open 'windows, and to take such other measures
for rrntilaliuu 4S may be absolutely IN eessary :
l hat wherever Fever Hospitals, or places fur the 'veep.
limo of the diseased, are already established, to remove un
certificate of one medical person, to such Fever Asylum,
any diseased person, who shall not be certified by a medical
person to he already seder cure, and placed in such circum-
stances as to prevent the communication of contagion, sn far
as fill he foreseers, to any other member of his family, or his
beighboors :
To have powers to lax let any house where the disease
prevails, • mark or sign, denoting that some of the inhabit-
ants are infected with fever.

The powers 111141 the costatillition of howls Uuar I to be coo-
eidc reel an entirety tesispormy, awl to nue with the CIRICI
geucy uu shich they strefouuded.

SECOND REPORT
FROM TOR SS I. Et T COMMITTEE ON THE CON.

TAGIOUI FLYER IN 'MIND.

Orrlered, by the Muse of Commove, to be printed,
Noy VI, ISIS.

Tlw S4ert Committee appointed to innalre into the slate
of Ireland, as to the prevalence of Contagious Fever iu
that part of the United Kingdom, and to investigate the
44 rinses, temporary and permauent, which have led to the
increased progress of this destructive malady during the
last and pirsont year, and to report the same, from time
t.. tumor ills their observations thereupon, to the !louse;
and also to report such measures, remedial and moro-
ns-, as may Perm most efficacious to arrest its further
♦tension, to guard, as far as human foresight eau pro-
old.., promo its recurrence, and to scrtire a.legnale means
..r hlrvitstri to the estabh►bmentc destined fur the selnf or
tin• diseasitl; have further considered the matters to tlu•m
earned, and have speed upon the following Report
From the probable approach of the prorogation of Par-
liament, the l'onsmittee have hero reluctantly compelled to
posh iiry important task 4.f a more extended ni-
trify tot.. Ihr 14111131WD, cau►e of the exlwlance of
1.1 Ihr Mfr.. 1.1 parts of Ireland, which setae f want of
. mid -swont fir its industrious population, V. WI 11 View to
dist 4.0. a sd.optste means fur their radical and eff. (teal te-
lt! .1A IV. 1.. a% Inay be prarticahle They have
trommsrudations fel the fitst•ot tlutt.fore, lu ale thia.

lilislistent of gospiesis f.i ►rli.•f of the diseased, to ineoring
the funds destined to their sopport, and to Poch isiesitts ao
appeared to them hest adapted to arrest the pretreat' of the
Epidemic, under eircunistances of calamitous increase.
As Act is in progress, whore provisions will, they trust,
materially conduce to effect these desirable objects.
They cannot, however, terminate their sittings without
ea►nestly intpresstior on the House, that the continuance
of fryer is very many starts of Ireland, with little abate.
meal, requires assiduous care amid increased liberality from
the public, is aid of the voluntary eoatributiona„ from
which the hospitals fur telly( of the diseased in the country
porta of Ireland, hare hitherto, to a very grtat degree, de-
rived their sopport.
This is the mitre necessary, since as the Medical Hired
have very truly state& that with the exception of I,Mlllt.
noised by suliocriptioO fur the Cork-street fever Hospital.
the whole of the expen/e of providing fur the Capital
has been defrayed by tlovernirtest, whilst in other cities and
districts of Ireland, where fever has prevailed to as great an
rarest, compared with their popnlatoit, the relief of the
diseased has arisen, in a 'very great proOrtion, from volute.
silky todnirriptiotis They feel themselves ranee forcibly
tailed spots to notice this, from ohaerviag the tree great
stream to which the voluntary subscriptions have eattioded
on the pert of the resident gentry and commons' ty, especially
in Cork, and their declared isibility to continue, during
another year, similar exertions; and that the favourable
results which have aterompetsird the active eitertions of Go.
terament in the decrease of disease in Dublin, fully justify
them, as they believe, ita this reiroihmenrtation.
They have reluctantly been compelled to notate the very
*mill amount of subscriptions which, in any of the list's laid
before the Committer, appear to have here supplied by the
wealthy non-resident land proprietors of Ireland, with some
Isonostrable exceptions.
The Committee suggest the propriety of measures being
takes to ascertain the extent bf fever, and the mamber of
deaths Irons:his period until the commencement of the en.
twine Resgion. generally throngletint Ireland, by calling for
releres from Ilk Clergy of the several perishes.

SMITH AMERICA.

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