The Sun.
London, England, 1824-02-14 00:00:00

LONDON FEVER 1107PITAL.

Yesterday a Meeting of the Governors of the
London Fever Hospital took place at the Free-
masons' Tavern, for the purpose of receiving the
23d Annual Report of the Committee. J. L.
MALLET, Esq., Treasurer, in the chair.
The CHAIRMAN observed, that the Committee had con-
ceived it necessary, in presenting their report, to remind the
Public that the objects of this Institution were to diminish the
mortality of contagious malignant fevers, by a speedy removal
of the persons first infected into the Hospital ; and to prevent
the spreading of these fevers by purifying the apartments of
patients by means of white-washing, fumigation, &c. Two
very important advantages were thus acquired which were un-
attainable by the ordinary regulations of public charities. First,
the admission was not delayed by formalities of recommenda-
tion, or stated and distant periods for the reception of patients;
so that if early application be made, the disease might be taken
in the commencement, and easily cured. And secondly, the
assistance being extended beyond the walls of the Hospital to
the infected apartments of the sick, those who had not already
suffered were preserved to their families; and the patients once
recovered, escaped the danger of a fresh infection on their re-
turn home.

Da. CLEVERLY presented the Report of the Committee,
which was read. It stated, that in the year 1323 the admis-
sions into the hospital amounted to 336, of which number 283
had been dismissed cured ; 14 were dismissed as improper ob-
jects ; and 46 died. There were remaining in the hospital 23 ;
and the total number of admissions since the opening in 1802
amounted to 4,871. For the four years preceding 1822, the
cases of fever were gradually diminished, the admissions being
in the first year 608 ! in the second, 539; in the third, 477 ;
and in the fourth, 323. An increase of 100 took place in 1822,
for the number rose to 426. Last year the number had de-
clined to 339 ; so that the Committee considered malignant
infectious fever as stationary for the last three years, so far as
they could judge from the hospital records. It was not diffi-
cult to determine a priori, and upon simple inspection, where
the typhus fever originated and most abounded. The parishes
containing the greatest number of sick, were St. Pancras, St.
Andrew's, Holborn ; St. Luke's; St. James's, Clerkenwell ;
St. Mattew, Bethnal-green ; Christ Church, Spitalfields ; St.
and Whitechapel. In no preceding year had the In-
stitution rendered such important services as in the present.
Seventy-five domestic servants had been admitted, and so many
families had been relieved from the anxiety and danger n a.turally
attendant upon persons in contagious fevers. The progressive
improvements in the metropolis tended to mitigate the violence
of fevers which were usually engendered in the filthy and con-
fined habitations of the indigent. The benefits of light and
air were increased, the paving and cleansing the streets, the
construction and support of the common sewers, and the co-
pious supplies of water, all formed an enemy to the typhus,
not easy to be resisted ; while in the close abodes of the poor,
the disease raged, and would rage until the miserable recesses
were less crowded with inhabitants, and habits of cleanliness
were adopted. _

Dr. SHEPHERD rose to move a reSOlution to the meeting.
He believed the public would be higbly gratified at finding.that
the London Fever Hospital stood amongst the highest in the
list of charities, and he hoped that the immense advantages
arising from it would stimulate them to exercise a spirit of li-
berality proportioned to the acknowledged merits of the Institu-
tion. He then moved, that the funds were inadequate to the
extensive objects of the institution, and that it should be refer-
red to the General Committee to adopt measures for increasing
the resources of the Institution.

Some conversation took place upon this resolution, which was
unanimously agreed to. The Duke of Somerset was then re-
elected President for the year ensuing, and the name of Lord
I3exley was added to the list of Vice-Presidents.—The meeting
then separated.

MOOR FOWL AND THE DUNG CART —The at-
tention of a gentleman passing yesterday through
New•gatr-street, was forcibly struck by the singu-
lar circumstance of a dung-cart, placed at
the door of a poulterer, taking in a load or
moor fowl, in the presence of a large concourse
of people assembled to witness so unusual a
spectacle. On inquiry, it appeared, that he-.
tween 400 and 500 brace of moor fowl hav-
ing lately been shipped in Scotland, the ves-
sel, in her passage to the Thames, sprung a
leak, and the preciows freight by this means re-
ceived considerable injury. Being, however,
brought to the house of the purchaser, or the
consignee, the birds of Scotland appeared any
thing but birds of Paradise, for they began to
assume an animated character ; and tearful that
the novel shipment might become the subject of
an indictment on the part of his neighbours, the
disappointed spectator was yesterday glad to gtt
them off his premises, even in the humble con-
veyance of a dung-cart. What a dreadful loss
and disappointment this must have been to the
London epicures !

SPAIN.

IMADRID GAZETTIC 7XTRAORDINART, FER.I, 1824.]
OFFICIAL ARTICLE.

Lieutenant-Colonel DON ISIDORE BARRADA,
who was sent as Commissioner to the Isle of
Cuba, to notify the liberation of our Lord the
King, and to give orders for the recognition of
the Royal authority there, has returned with the
happy account of having discharged this duty
successfully. He is detained in quarantine at
CAdiz, but has transmitted to His Excellency
the Firat Secretary of State the following dis-

patch :

" ExcELLrxT SIR—I have the honour to inform your Ex-
cellency that the King our Lord has been recognised in the
plenitude of his sovereign rights at the Havannah. On the 9th
of December I reached that place, at three in the afternoon ;
and, having put the dispatch which contained the Royal Decree
of His Majesty into the hands of the Captain-General, he im-
mediately proceeded to take measures for carrying into effect so
sacred a duty ; beginning by dissolving the Cabildo of revolu-
tionary Constitutionalists, and by ordering the Stone of the Con-
stitution to be overturned. I had the honour to attend at this
satisfactory proceeding, and to give my personal assistance in
destroying this odious symbol of rebellion.
The dispatch goes on to state the performance of Te Deum
for his Majesty's liberation, the excellent conduct of the Go-
vernor, the rejoicings of the inhabitants, &c. &c.
Accompanying this is a copy of Diario del Gaierno of Ha-
vannah, dated 12th Dec. containing an Address of Don F. A.
Vives the Governor, to the inhabitants, soldiery, &c.
Madrid Gazelle, 3d Feb. 1824.—His Excellency the Secre-
tary of State has communicated to the President of the Council
a Royal order, which, referring to various laws of the Novis-
rima RecopilaciOn and others, ordains that for the future no
other persodical publications shall appear but the Gamic: and
the Diar;o of Madrid, except the Journals of Commerce, Agri-
culture, and the Arts, as already published, or which may here-
after be published with licence of the Supreme Authority. This
order is dated on the 30th January, 1824.
The Restauradar of the 31st of January, 1824, contains an
.extract from L'Echo du Midi, a French Paper published at
Toulouse, stating that the most absurd rumours were on foot
relative to the affairs of. Spain ! among others, that there was a
party formed to dethrone King Ferdinand, and to raise to the
throne his brother Don Carlos. The Rcstaurador declared that
it was with the greatest repugnance it printed these injurious
and fabricated rumours, invented by the perfidy of the Spanish
Revolutionists ; nevertheless, as we perceive by the preceding
Order, the ilertaurador shared the fate of all the other Papers
except the Gaceta and the Diaries