The Sun.
London, England, 1817-11-22 00:00:00

CONTAGIOUS FEVER.

'A very respectable Meeting was held yesterday,
at the City of London Tavern, Bishopsgate,
street, for the pnrpo.e of taking into considera-
tion the means of increasing the funds of the
London Fever Society, to. enable that Institution
to take proper steps to meet the late'increase of
Infectious Fever.-

Scion after one o'clock, the LORD MAYOR took
the Chair, and opened to the Meeting the objects
for which it was convened, and which, he observ-
ed, world he more fully (let oiled by those who had
paid more attention' to the proceedings of this In-
stitution in question. He conceived he was per-
forming a part of his duty, in contributing his time
to the assistance of a charity of (his sort ; and he
wished to impress on the Meeting, that it was
these seasons of distress.the duty of the wealthy
to come formard to relievg the poor'and distressed.

The Rev: JOHN HEWLETT,' of the Fever Hos 7
Htal, briefly mentioned the betretits ari+ging from
the establishment, and urged thit a prevention
should be given to Me spread of the contagion ;
the necessity for an immediate exertion in which
object .was apparent from the folldwing,corrobn-
"rated evidence of the alarming increase of fe-
ver

Number of Typhus Patients adulated into the nouse. of}
124
Recovery, year endilig ApLi!, ISI7
Admitted monthly since, viz :—Nlay
' -

.
Jurnt . 9.8
July TO
August . ., 63
September Bl
October

Total number of typhus‘ in last six months.... .341

It might be truly staled, that all ranks and de-
scriptions were dceply concerned in this object, as
the rapidity with which the disorder passed from
one quarter to another could not be so effectually
checked ris by Means of the Fever Hospital. He
concluded by moving that the Report should be
read.
Mr. COLaUHOUN seconded the motion. His-
tory. he said, declared that in the year 1594 one-
fourth of the inhabitants of London perished by
contagious fever ; in 1025, the number was thirty-
five thousand four hundred and seventy ; and in
1661, upwards' of 68,000 souls were lost by the
disorder. The States Of Barbary were -now suf-
fering'ffom a plague, and had their pirates upon
,the Atlantic. Charleston, and other parts of Ame-
rica, were- losing at the rate of 40 and 50 souls a
day ; and our danger was, no doubt, increased,
from the existence of an unavoidable intercourse.
In 1750; a gaol fever in London took away,
amongst its numerous victims, two Judges, a Lord
Mayor, an Alderman, and several of the spectators
.who attended at the trials in the Old .Baiky. Iu
1781, an alarm existed that a recurreuce of those
calamities was about to Cake place, and in that
year the Fever Institution originated. The bene-
ficent results Were well known ; the diseases of a
contagions-riatureA-weresoon reduced to one-third.
As to. the causes of the present state of disease,
they might be traced, independently Of foreign
importation, to the poverty of the times, the want.
of provisions,
.the crowding of families into
narrow apartments, in alleys and courts, where
people, to the number of 500,000, were g :1-
nerally collected, without the means of a free
respiration. The benevolence of The public
should, therefore, be immediately
,exercised.—
There was a feature in this Institution which did
not present itself in
,any other ; it included a pre-
ventive system as well as a cure--;-ackanser was sent
about to the apartments where contagion was
supposed to lurk; with quick lime, which he im-
mediately applied, and the patient was removed
from the house, which thus became very soon fit

fora healthy res►dent. By the care which tile
Alembeis of the Institution were taking in this
cipient state of the disorder, if the means were li-
berally supplied, the calamity would no doubt •be
arrested.

Alderman ATKINS agreed in the observations
just mentioned, and trusted the • meeting, tVotild
sanction this application. lie moved a resolutian
expressive_ of the advantages wising from the
Institution.
Mr. WxwAms stated:that,the Common Conn
cii were now engaged upon the %uhject, all Would
no doubt act with their accustomed liberality upon
an occasion so important ,to .the community: Ii
mentioned several very desperate cases of fever,
one of which was that of a family in Yorkshire,
into whose house, in consequence of the Conta-
gion, nobody entered for eleven days.' Fwd and
other necessaries Were lifted in a basket at the
window, and a Mother and her two children fell
victims to the disorder. Ile also repeated the par-
ticulars of the des!ruction of a whole .181114 at
Leeds, which reminded us of the sudden depopn-
Winn of a plague, 'and contains too many hor-
rible peculiarities to be mentioned in any other
than a general way.
Sir CHARLEsi2riowita said; that Avords would be
unnecessary after what had been he tr.d, and moved
that a subscription should he immediately'opened.

Mr, PARRY, an East India Director, declared,
as Vice President of the Institution, that none
could be better managed. He hoped the sub-
scription would be general, for all were interested.
To his own family the Rospital had been of the
'utmost service, by an almost immediate cure of one
of his servants, whom he would have kept io the
house but for the much better accommodations
preSented by the Institution. The fact was, if, he
was himself afflicted by the fever, he would prefer
going into that Hospital 'to staying io his own
house. He concluded by saying, that the Di. cc-
tors of the East India Company had- ,voted 100
guineas to the service of the Insiitution.
Mr. SHORT proposed that a statement of the ob 7
ject of the Meeting should. be prepared for the
Public, and that their support should .be solicit-
ed.—Agreed to.
Sir T. BELL said, the money collected on 'the
occasion would be as advantageous to the giver as
to the receiver. He.rejoiced to have it to say that
the prisons were, pretty free.from disorder, and
moved, that a Memorial should bepresented to all
Public. Companies for a subscription for the ob-
ject of supporting the Institution.
..Doctor THORNTON stated to the Meeting, that
he had used yeast and porter in the numerous
'cases of fever he attended with great effect ; the
cure of the disorder, almost without exception,
followed. A pennyworth of salt and a penny-
worth of vitriol would always operate as a
_pre-
eentive, hy being applied as a fumigation-; a little
nitre and a little sulphur would answer the same
purpoSe.
Mr. pATNE
/described the funds of the,lnstitu-
lion as extremely low. He moved that all parishes
should be solicited to subscribe.

Mr. Wilkes,- Alderman Birch, Dr, Adams, Mr.
Dixon,. and Alderman Atkins, having also strongly
recommended the plans-proposed, all the Resolu-
tions were unanimously agreed to.
A most liberal subscription was immediately
entered into.-

DuEL.--,Yesterday morning, about 7 o'clock,
a dtiel was fought on Blackheath,, between two
-Gentlethen, the one residing in that neighbour-
hood, and the other a little distance from Nor-
wood. The dispute originated a few days age,
respecting • some pecuniary speculations. Mr.
W--, the former Gentleman, was seconded
by a friend of his in 'Broad-street ; Mr. T--,
by his partner in Bishopsgate-streer. The par-
ties met in the hollow of the • Heath. The
ground was paced out, and they exchanged shots
without effect ; on the second fire; Mr. W.'s ball
grazed Mr. T.'s shoulder, on which the seconds
interfereu, and a reconciliation was effected.
BosT OF PRINCESS CIIAR,LoTTR.-The Nobility
and Gentry are respectfully acquainted that Mr.,
JoHN TURNERELLI has '.obtained LiF. Brother's
permission to use the copyright fur Casts.of the
Bust of the much-lamented Princess.—The
ginal Bust is the full size of life, trom'which one,
(the half propclion) has, been faithfully copied ;
and from the peculiar circumstance of her
.Royal
Highness having exclusively sat to Mr. P. Tor-
nerelli several times previous.to'and on the ,day of
her Marriage, more than two hours, to•complete
the likeness, it is presumed that it will be a very
desirable Memento to
.her Royal Highness's
friends, who may inspect the same at No. 67,
Newman-street.

'l'lle followin article from the London Gazette,
of 14th October 1817, was o►nitted for want of
room :

L" Whitehall, Sept: 29, 1817.

" His Royal Highness the-Prifice Regent !lath been pleased,
in the name and on the behalf of his Majesty, to grant unto
Lieutenaikt and Adjutant Robert Gilbert,of the Royal Marine
Artillery, his Majesty's Royal License and Authority, that he
may ac.cept and wear the insignia of a Knight of the Imperial
Russi#n Order of tit. %Vladimir, of the fourth class, with
which hi:; Imperial Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias
has leen pleased to honour that Officer, in testimony of his
approbatton of the signal intrepidity displayed by him, in
command of a Corps of Royal Marine Artillery (employed
as a‘ Rocket Corps,`, at the siege of Dantzic, in the year
1813."

A ROYAL Ft3n.--Y"sterday NELSON, the De-
puty Water-bailiff, waited upon the Loan MAY Oa
and presented him wi-h a live storgeon,which
just been caught at Bugsby's Hole, upon the
River Thames, within the
,jurisdiction of the City
of London. The fidi ‘veighed upwards of sixty
pounds. The Loan Ahvort, aArecahle to custom,
ordered the sturgeon to be conveyed a, a present
to his floYal Highness the PIIINCE REG4NT.
Ca'anNEICSISOOEST —An Jusqest.Was held at
thelslng and Queen, Bethnall-green, on the body
*of tf::.Vornatt enknOwn;who was found drowned ilia
pond by a clog, as' recently stated. She appear-
ed to have been in the water a considerable
time ; she WAS 5 feet 2 inches hiet, black
hair, about
.36 years of age ;. she wore a black
cotton gown, and black bonnet, black worsted
stockings, and a' white cotton handkerchief on
her neck : she had nothing in her pocket but
a piece of copper and a cap ; there were no
walks of violence on the body. No evidence
being before the Jury to shew by %Olaf means she
she came there, they returned a verdict of—Found
Drowned.