The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-09-02 00:00:00

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Dt1111.147, AVGII,T 20.
The Committee of Physicians appointed on the
95t4 'March last, to watch the lurehrr progress of
the epidemic, have ninth! their Report on the sub•
itC: 111 which is heavy charge of neglect is brought
agsti.st the Ibis,' Government. It is dated Dublnt.')
A ugu-t 17, 1818. and cluttuletica Om%
" Si ite the appointment of your Committee more than
Tour months have elapsed, and 'hooch, iu that interval, the
progress of the Epidemic mrlit have Minified your Com-
mittee in convening the Profession at amatch earlier period.
they were reluctant lo adopt that etvp; Mild the efficacy if
the measures, then eche', upon by ilie Constituted Authori-
ties, and by the Public, for the aupmcmion of Fever, had hart
fair trial.

These meitsuirrs Icor,. now been iii.fhll iiperntion &wise
the last ten stwoilth, there is no decline of the Epi-
demic; on die contrary, after sustaining a v.•I y ti 'Vial trim e-
tion in Ow 11,1,101er of Sufis-rem duriiic the wombs of March
and April, if bus advanced aitb such rapid piridrs, that iii
the last more Patients By one-half were admitted on.
der the Frt i r into the Cork street and House of Industry Hos.
pants, than in Februarl, when the liver of the winter season
a its at oh height. the mr•takty of itie Epidemic has, tio
doubt, abated; but a mortality, however great, coo iii i t toes •
very small past of the minty pernicious consequences flowing
from the influence of a widespread Epidentie upon the
lower orders. The following tabu! sr view, the correctness
of which may he relied on, exhibits, in a distinct maiincrie
the progres of this contagiubs Epidemic, from the date of its
probable commencement to to the resent period."
Herr follows the tattle, in which the total amount
of admissions into the E.ver llovpitals of the House
of Industry and Cork-street, frotn the 31st August,
1817, to the lit August, 1818, is littera Ut 14,660.
The Report then proceeds to lament the inefficacy
of the measures pursued, and adds—
" But the Physicians of Dublin did not condemn owe plait
as ineflicient without suggesting anothisi as e tike Iv to
succeed, for they did, ntiost strotmly, recommend to the at.
teation of the Government 1111.10 f the public, the memoirist
detailed iu the Second Report of the Slit, Cowniotter of
Health, t as alone competent to cheek the further progress of
this formidable Epidemic, and as measures which, if perse-
veringly executed, were, in their judgment, likely to subdue
it within a reasonable time.' Unfortunittt ly 14 this city,
and fur the wretched sufferers from disease, the warnint
voice of those, the most competent to jodze on such a sub.
ire% was disregarded, and Dublin has thereby to neidure a
great increase of distress aud poverty among her iiihabitsitir„
without any immediate prospect of checking the evil conse-
quences flowing from a i.erseverauee in measures at once el:,
pensive aud inefficitnt.
The Report then notices two circumstances, to
which, although mentioned as facts, they cannot
attach credit, viz. that the Fever firopital carriages
will no longer be sent beyond the Circular-road, al-
though it appears from the returns of the House of
Industry for the month of July, 407 patients were
admitted in that month from the •iciiiity of Dublin ;
and, secondly, that the Goverimient will not provide
any additional hospital accommodation for those
infected by fever. A circumstance which, if true,
would be directly contrary 111 on assurance, contain-
ed in Mr. GREGORY'S Answer to the Deputation
from the Physicians of Dublin, that " in case
the contagion should unhappily continue to spread,
his Excellency desires me to state, that in addi-
tion to these (that is, the existing Hospitals), his
Excellency has the power °ripening the new Bride-
well, capable of accommodating three hundred pa-
tients."