The Sun.
London, England, 1847-04-08 00:00:00

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APRIL 8, 1847.;

FEVER BILL (Ul-1-i.A:NI)).
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The preaMble briefly declares Chat the Poor Act
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Of last session can be more effectvally,carred out by
relief committees appointed under :Pie Act for the'
Fern'poraiy Relief of Destitute Nittsn,Zintlreland,'Y
which received the Royal assent-About toui Weeks'
since, thati by the board of guardians of any union.
for the relief of the destitute poor,
The first clause enacts that the present Fever Bill,
which was to hiive expired on the is n&kuext S-p-
-tember, shall, subject to the amendments; hereinafter
contained, be continued until the Ist day -Of -N;rvem-
ber next, thence until the end of• tisiltfcsits:ses
sion of Parliament.
The second clause authorises the Commiisioners Qf
the Bortril .oWiealth in Ireland, from tite'tiiiitiie%
as tltey shall4hink fit, to transmit, under 11).VildtniV
eap• commissioners, a wilMttaiiitifiL
cute
.c,or the se.eessity of medical reief b‘hig afforded
to' poor affected with or °Wei..
epidemic dissiasein any electoral division, for vtilick*
relifif committee shall have been.eons • •
T4p:, third • cligge directs that the.., eurtinis-
4n-the rbe,, eipt of the previous•Ationed
certiaeate, 'shall'iss their writ -u orders relief
whir iForuin.
ens, bedding, elothine,-.lnediCines,
and medical appliances, and other necessaries, as may
he necessary for the due care and treatment of the
poor persons admitted into every such hospital, " and
also such a number of competent nurses and attend-
ants as the Commissioners of Health may think ne-
cessary for each hospital, and also to rent, hire, or
procure a house, building, or room, to be used as a
dispensary, or ffice, for the medical officer of such
union, and to provide such other medicines and
medical appliances, including nutriment, if necessary,
as the medical officer may require to out-destitute
persons who may be affected with disease.
The fourth clause declares that three members of
any relief committee can constitute a quorum; and
the fifth clause vests the management of hospitals and
dispensaries, procured as before directed, in the relief
committees, subject to the superintendence of the
Commissioners of Health. Persons affected with fever,
or other epidemic disease, to be admitted under the
authority of the committee, or by their officers, duly
authorised; and the medical officers appointed under
the provisions of the existing Act shall be continued
for the purposes of the new Act.
The sixth clause, which, with the two succeeding
clauses, has been taken from the 68th Geo. 111., cap.
47, empowers the relief committees to give such direc-
dons as they consider necessary and expedient for
preventing the communication of fever or other
epidemic diseases within their respective electoral
districts or divisions; and for that purpose to order
that all streets, lanes, courts, gardens, Szc.; shall be
cleansed and purified; and that all manures prejudi-
cial to health shall be removed therefrom; and that
all houses in which any sick persons were residing
shall be ventilated, fumigated, white-washed—the
building and furniture to be exposed to the air,
washed, cleansed, and, if absolutely necessary, burned
and destroyed.
The seventh clause vests the relief committees of
those districts where fever hospitals have been esta-
blished with power to remove infected persons (not
under proper medical care, and not placed in such
circumstances and under such precautions as may
most probably tend to prevent the communication of
disease) to hospital, upon the certificate of the medical
officer, after due inquiry into the circumstances of the
case. This power is, however, accompanied with the
following proviso :—" That the said relief committee
shall in all cases of such compulsory removal of any
person into such fever hospital, make a special report
thereof to the said commissioners within two days
after such removal shall take place."
The eighth clause imposes a maximum penalty of
51., or one month's imprisonment, upon conviction
before two magistrates, on any person who shall
resist or oppose the execution of the powers of the
relief committees under this Act, such conviction not
to be quashed for informality, nor to be subject to
any certiorari proceeding or appeal whatever.
The ninth clause declares that the general issue
be pleaded in any action brought against relief coin-
inittees, collectively or individually, or their officers,
and that, in the event of the plaintiff in the suit fail-
ing to establish his case, the tribunal before whom the
case underwent adjudication shall award costs to the
defendant.
The tenth clause enacts that the necessary ex-
penses incurred by any relief committee, in carrying
any order of the relief commissioners into effect, and
in the execution of the other purposes of this Act, shall
be defrayed out of the funds from time to time placed
at the disposal of such relief committee, under the
provisions of the Destitute Poor Act of the present
session.

The eleventh clause enacts that, notwithstanding
the 10th Victoria, cap. 7, sec. 3, which declares that
no relief committee shall be continued after the first
day of November in this year, unless for the purpose
of settling or closing their accounts, " in any case in
which previously to the first day of November any
relief committee shall have received instructions from
the relief commissioners, for executing the provi-
sions of the Act of last session, in any electoral dis-
trict or division, such relief committee, and also, the
finance committee for the union, shall continue for
the purposes of the Act of last session, and of this Act,
during the continuance of this Act, or until the Lord-
Lieutenant, or other chief governor or governors of
Ireland, shall, by any order to be published in the
Dublin Gazette, dissolve such relief or finance com-
mittee.

The twelfth clause declares that in the case of
certificates issued by the Board of Health, after the
Ist. of November in this year, the provisions of the
10th Victoria, cap. 7 (under which the relief com-
mittees are appointed) shall be extended and applied
to such cases; and the costs and expenses-0F carrying
the same into execution, after the disbursement of
he funds in the hands of the finance committee and
relief committee on the Ist day of October in this
year, shall be paid and provided by the board of
pardians of the union, in like manner as in the Act
of last session.

The thirteenth clause provides for the decent in-
terment of destitute persons dying of fever, by em-
powering relief committees to defray the expenses of
the same out of the funds placed at their disposal.
The fourteenth clause fixes the duration of the
Act, namely, until the end of last session ; and the
fifteenth clause, which is the last, declares that the
Act may be amended or repealed by any Act to be
passed in this session of Parliament.

DRATII OF LIEUTENANT,GRNERAL SIR DFGALp
L. GILMOUR, K.C.B.—We regret to learn that intelli-
gence has been received from Rome of the death in that
city of Lieutenant-General Sir Duguld L. Gilmour.
K.C.8., on the 25th ult. This distinguished officer had
been upwards of 50 years in the army, and had shared
the perils of the Peninsular war under Sir John Mori
tnd the Duke of Wellington. Sir Dugald entr_ red
irmy in 1794 on being appointed ensign in an inct pen-
lent company, and thence removed to the 57th Foot.
In 1795 he accompanied the expedition to Quiberon Bay,
and in the succeeding year assisted at the taking of the
:olonies of Demerara, Essequibo, and Berbice. He then
returned to England and attended his regiment in the
disastrous campaign of 1799,:ander the Duke of York in
Holland, and took part in the battle of Bergen, and on
the 2d and .6th October at Castricum, where he was
ieverely wounded in the head, and taken prisoner by the
enemy. In 1805 he was promoted to a majority in the
95th (the Rifle Brigade), and served at the investment of
Copenhagen, the battle of Kioge, and the march through
Zealand until the surrender of the town. He went in
the command of three companies of the Ist battalion of
the Rifle Brigade to Sweden, to act under Sir JohnOn
Moore, from whence he proceeded to Portug%-
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the retreat from Salamanca he was
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of his regiment, and eminently d
regiment. At Almedia he was.w
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during the. siege of Ciudad
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At Busaco he
by Marshal Massena, from which pcakod he had
the entire command of his regiment.
again greatly distinguished himself. In 1801, on the
retreat of Massena, he was engaged in the different ac
Lions at Pombal, Redinha, Sabugul, and Foz d'Arouce
at the battle of Fuentes d'Onor, and at the action at
Guinaldo. He was then compelled to repair to his
native country on account of ill health. In August,
1813, he was sufficiently recovered to rejoin his regiment
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Tarbes, and finally at Toulouse. The gallant General,
in acknowledgment cf his gallant services at the battles
of Busaco, Fuentes d'Onor, Nive, and Toulouse was de-
eoratt al with a cross. He was a knight commander of
the order of the Bath, and in April, 1842, was appoint
!.olonel•commandant of the lid& Brigade. The deceased
vas io the receipt of a pension tor his distinguished ser•
vices. His commission was dated as subjoined:—En-
sign, 10th July, 1794; Lieutenant, 20th Augus.a, 1794;
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Captain, 13th May, 1795; Major, 23d May.lBos; Lieu-
tenant-Colonel, 30th May, 1811; Colonel, 19th :Jul\
1821; Nl.ior General. 22d July, 1830; and Lieutenan, -
General, 23d Nov., 1841
Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
, office from the Governors of Malta and Gibraltar.