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assiduity of its medical attendant; entitle tlizin•to the
praise and gratitude cf all who caastimate the for-
titude, the risk, and the active benevolence which
characterises the profession to which they belong.—
But the objects of this Institution are not limited to
attendance on the sick, and to the removing persons,
from the sphere of contagion ; a portion of its funds
expended in cleaning the apartments • of the poor,
who, crowded in close courts and unventilated rooms,
are assailed by fever ; this practice is peculiar to this
Establishment, and in the last year no less than 15!
rooms were thus white-washed. Your Committee
refer generally to the evidence of Dr. Bateman, to
establish. the necessity of a speedy removal of the
poor from their own dwellings when attacked with
:ontagious fever, as well as to demonstrate the be,
nefits derived in the last year, by the existence of this
InstituticT, when, from the crowded state of the Hos-
pitals, and their known unwillingness to receive fever
cases at all, the greatest danger would have been in-
curred of the spreading into a larger focds the sphere
of this contagious disorder. In one house the disease
continued seventeen weeks ; part of the family were
attacked with it three different times ; and it was
only a Tested by the destruction of all the furniture
in the apartment.
Thus It may be said, the sufferers became diseased
throlgh their own contagion ; aril your Committee
cannot contemplate, wunout serious apprehension,
what might have been the result of this epidemic
daily gaining strength, if it had not been checked in
its malignant growth by the efforts of the Fever In-
stitution. Your Committee wish also to remark, that
this Establishment is open to all applicants, at all
days and hours. A medical certificate of disease is
stated to be required ; but the practice is to admit
all who are attacked by' the complaint upon the first
application ; and the only impediment thrown in the
way has been one whkh it is the aim of your Com-
mittee to remove—a want of sufficient room for the
admission of patients.

Your. Committee wish to observe, that a most sa-
lutary system is adopted here, viz. the transport of
the patients in a litter belonging to the Establishment,
thereby preventing the use of coaches or sedan chairs.
One of the means by which the contagion is circu-
lated is thus checked, and they hope the other Hos-
pitals will see the necessity of adopting some. such
arrangement. Indeed, from the indifference to con-
tagion which seems to exist in some of these Esta-
blishments, it is a matter of surprise to your. Com-
mittee that mote fatal results do not occur.
Your Committee have learned with
,great pain,
that in all the hospitals of Landon a great proportion
of patients are weekly refused admission, in most of
them for want of room ; in one of them (the Middle-
sex Hospital) from a deficiency of funds. Any plea,
therefore, that would lighten the burden which would
now lay down these Establishment's, would, to the
minds of your Committee, be of at public useful.
ans. But if the entire temoval of cases of fever from
all the hospitals may be considered injurious to them
at schools of medicine, the diminution of the number
nf such admissions 'might ease the finances of some
establishments, aad leave room in others for patients
suffering under diseases of a different character.
Your, Committee have been informed, that it is
the practice in all the HoSpitals 'to mix cases of con-
tagious fever indiscriminately with other patients ;
it has, however, been stated to them by shrnimedi-
cal authorities, that,practically speaking, no evil has
arisen from their intermixture - but,. with due def..
rence to such opinions, the acksowledged fact, that
in some Hospitals the fever has been generated
that patients admitted under one disease have• caught'
in. the Hospital another ; that the medical practi.
*Deers and attendants have been attacked themselves
by. the disease • and that most fatal effects have been'
therefrom produced; all these facts fully satisfy your
Committee that the practice above alluded.to, it not
altogether abandoned, ought to be resorted to with
great precaution, and in a most limited extent. As
long as fever cases can be diluted through a large
ward, with proper attention to ventilation, scarcely
any danger of contagion may arise ; but in a period
of epidemic, such as existed in the late and present
year, when all the Hospitals were crowded with
patients assailed by the prevailing disease of fever,
great hazard must be run, and the experience of this
year has demonstrated the danger and evil of the sys-.
tem. As the great preservative against contagion is a
free circulation of air, patients labouring under chro-
nic disorders cannot with propriety be subjected to
the same treatment, and a system of medical police
which is essential in one case to prevent the spreading
of the disease, becomes highly prejudicial in the other;
besides, a great prejudice prevails, and your Com-
mittee cannot consider it as unfounded, among thie
poorer classes of society, who are the main objects of
these Establishments, against either entering them-
selves or sending their relations into these HospitJs,
on account of the hassled of infection to which they
are exposed. The events of the last year are not cer-
tainly calculated to weaken these opinions ; and your
Committee feel assured, that to diminish the number
of fever cases in every Hospital, by increasing the
powers of receiving them in Institutions exclusively
set apart for that disease, would not only do away the
impression on the public mind above alluded to, hut
contribute most materially to the relief and good ar-
rangement of those Hospitals, the wards of Which are
now exposed to be indiscriminately filled with patients
labouring under diseases in all their different stages
of suffering and malignity.
Your Committee refrain from entering more into
detail on these subjects ; they refer generally to the
evidence, which, to their minds, is conclusive. That
evidence has demonstrated the extent of the epide-
mic, the probable chance of its continuance, as well
as of its occasional recurrence, the small means
afforded by the Hospital to receive patients assailed
by it, the great hazard of mixing them with those
who labour under diseases of a different nature, tbd
utility of the Fever Institution, both for the cure of
the disorder, and for arresting the further progress
of contagion ; all these facts so made out, have sails.
fled your Committee, that it would be highlatet-
dient to extend the public ails to this Establi
And as they see no reason why the capital steek of
the Hospital should be augmented, they should pro.
pose a further grant of 2,000/. which, with the 1,0004
already made, will enable the Institution to increases
its means of accommodation to 100 patients. Taking
a fair average of the liver cases in the Metropolis,
this Establishment will thus be enabkif -to receive a
great proportion Vic patients who are new seat to

THE EVENING STAR

LONDON.

FRIDAY, JULY St, 'l,BlB.
Tilit FUNDS.
magas, sroctics THIS DAY AT TWIILVE PICLOCK
Reduced 7131i—Cons.710—for Opg. 77;1
61 per Cents.BBi—l per Cent. 97if
Navy I'o6.ll—lndia Bonds 91' 96 prem.
Omnium dis.—Exchequer Bills 19 ?.0 pr.

The Paris Papers of Tuesdarairived this forenoon,
but contain nothing. worth extracting. The Funds
' are regainingthe ground they had lost at -the clo• e
of last week. On Mondarihip rose.from 76 fr. 70c.
to 77 fr. 30 c. and left off at 27
The following Letter, which we have received to_
day from our regular Private Correspondent,. at Pa-
ris, contains some interesting pirtkulars,.in addition
to those with which he has, from time to time, fur-
nished us, respecting the Conspiracy :

" PARIS, JULY *to.

e , The retreat of Cannel is as yet undiscovered.
Doubts were at first entertained as• to the reality of
his flight, but the Journals, which, as every on,
knows, dare insert nothing Without the sanction of
the Ministry, have at 'earl) proclaimed the fact.
44 According u) popular rumour, Cannel was
urged to his flight Isy two great personages, who
need not be nettled, and only consented on terms
which shew the strong hold he had cn those who
wished him out of the way. lie is said to have
sted

that as the absent were always forgotten, and
as he would perhaps be obliged to remain all his life
in &le, that he could not consent to go without
being previously provided with enough to support
him according to his rank for the remainder of his
iif!, but would rather abide the risk of a prosecution,
however serious its consequences might be to himself,
Or to others who would he involved by the exposures
attending it.
" A good deal of negotiation ensued as to terms,
but it was, it seems, at length concluded, that he
should receive two millions, part in money, part in
Drafts on London, Amsterdam, Vienna, and Ham-
, burgh, and part in Promissory Nctes."

A Flanders Mail' has brought us this morning
Brussels Papers to the 21st inst. The following are
ettracts: •

CONGRESS AT ATX-LA-CHAPELLE.

We learn from Aix4a.:Chapelle that the Emperors
of itOssia and Austria, and his Majesty the King of
Prussia, are expected in that city about tl,e 20th of,
August. An hotel has been hired there for 'the Duke
de Richelieu, and the Duke of Wellington is also ex.

;fetal. 'MIAs are 24a hires! at Spa fir tLeir ,
Dienneges the Prince of Orange, Prince Ang
of Prussia, the Duke and Duchess of Cumbe
dc. It is hoped that this delightful place wi
visited by severd other great perionagcs, dui;
&tigress at Aix-la Mapelle.

GRP.itAtt DIET.

The German Diet continues its df liberaticns
rather slowly. Several important affairs srlricl
to decide, will be suspended till after the repel
of the military cOncerns, upon which the pit
Ministers arc daily employed. This imports;
jest will douttless be brought to a happy cynic.,
before the meeting of the Sovereigns at A:r.la
pelle. While in thy irrerior of Germany the ek
tutions ct the different States secure to them the
joyments of valuable advantages, the taker
tem will give to the German Cottle&ration
foreign relations, that respectable attitude tchi
suitable to its rank among the great Pov.-enoftu,
AUSTRIAN COURT.
VIEY:ZA

Almost the whole of the Diplomatic body
already left Vienna: most of the Ministers art
to Carlsbad—none remain here but the Nuncio

Holiness the Pope, the Spanish Ambassador,
the Ministers of Sardinia and the Netherlands:
Prince Francis Charles (Napoleon) went on
at noon to Baden, accompanied by his precept
meet his august on her way from It
Her Majesty the Archduchess received her sci
nv.,rks of the most lively tenderness. The young
was dressed in white, and wore the Orders of
phen of Hungary, and that of 'Constantine of ,
Immediately on the arrival of the Arch•li
Prince • letternich paid her a visit ; and a
number of persons of distinction a: Baden,

to pay their respects to her. Iler Majely er
saver al times in public, with I;er son at Lsr sills
the evening a brilliant serenade was given hz,
a part of her suite remain at Baden, the tea
ty Schoenbrunn. His Imperial Highness the
Prince Ferdinand, arrived at Baden the sam
and thp other Archdukes paid a v:sit the day
ingto their illustrious niece, who haireSide4
three years.
Their Majesties the Emperor and Empress

at the palace of Baden on the 4th, in ahe ahem
and Were welcomed by the firing of cannon 17
ing of bells. In the evening they went a
illumination of the town. On the sth the el
visitors drawn by curiosity to Baden, wzs so
dcrable, that itWeihardlypossibleto?rocs:.-tlo

TgE HAPVEST.

The greatest part of the Rye is cut in
the Wheat harvcst will soon commence ;_nothi
equal the beatity and fine quality of both :pc
grain. The, oldest farmers do not remember
year. 'Rain is as, rare as it is usually plentiful
season.

The Supplemtnt to the Cadiz Diaric Marc
the 30th ult. has been received, containing
slab account of Cie r:rrval action .hat.trc;c p.
the 24th, off Ca;),? St. Mary's, between thz Hsi
convoy and a small fictilla of Independent pril
The Spanish convoy left Cuba on the Cth Ma!
sisting of 3'4 sail of merchant vessels, destine'
rioua ports of the Peninsula, 'under cor.vm
brigs of u:ar, Alma, Vengador, and Rear..ta, :
vette Diamante, the Commodore. On
coast of Spain, their number was reduced tr,
1C shi2s, 8 brigs, 2 scl.rroners, and 3 Follett
of them stoutly arned. Oa'makiug Cape
the convoy Was attaciced by
.an Independent
two schooners, and the Official. Report fare'
seen from the annexed literal translatien;
the action lasted two houri : •
"On the 24th- inst. off Cape St. Miry the ter
action with the !marring, who 3ttettirted tr.
sets which had f.lien to leeward, ryar

fell upon them with a Leavy fire, wh:ch 'a...trios a
two nchooners (one uf. ensmiderahle fe-e, sod s
cos. the convoy MIN an arrnelne•rci!nm:.
trante made a signal for tt e o:hekships of 177:f to r•r-r.
but the little wind, ant: the dulliess c 1 the ros..els. pre
brigsfrom being as near.ns they could have wished.
mute ran alont. the enemy's line, liher.zed the cart-al

and fastened on the independent •hip, lvavinz Oa:ti
make towards the Convoy : which was considtr:.l r

tsgcous, as by this mewl ti►r war vessels were
In) act:on. The cengacl,,r and th:a fl.

big one of the Ft:huraert, ohlit;!ng h.r to fi

,; ~~

ner. The Alerta herself

the large schooner, but on the arrival tar it%
Spanish merchantman, who also placad hervo'
Diamante, the privateers sheertd of T6c cemor
more collected, in order to pre.. of any virtu', s, th,
dent ship made sail to the south-taco, and tae ,
windward, placing themselves astern of the Di.s .
night they made a second attmvt, but were In%
Alerta, who covered the stern of the litament-.,
in sight till the Latta had been j0in...1 by the
to be 11:01 her vessel 4 war that met them). Oar it
small. On board the Ventatior, one man ercundcd
the A/mance, cue baled, one wounded, r.t.d sarer.J
Our rigging has brim rorghly handled, but the In
gone off dreadiu:ly frightened, and with a geed deal
they were r..ea repairing their damages from oc boa:
Mame, changing their yards, reeving ropes, arAL,t
slap a good dotal cut up, u she was seen mends* her
other parts."

We have given in a preceding put d
a copy of the Report of 01:: .tisz:oct Conn
the 1-I.)us.-... of Commons on Contagills Fever
don, which will be found interesting, and Iv
of serous attention.

".
remesigrimiim•Bamommffsiimassis7l a;
CONTAGIOUS FEVER. pr
~ tit --
EUPORT.—The Select Committee appointed to examine Into el
the State of Contagious T`evrr in the Metropolis, and into the ' Bi
. .
^ Condition of the Institution for the Cure and Preventioo of at
the MUM, and who were employed to report their Observe. fry
. .
hone thereupon to the noose of Commons, together wilt the
. .
. .
bligutes Mtn; Eviaener taken before them, have agreed epee Is,
the followirg Report: w,
. .
ar
• Your Committee having summoned before them E
Phrsiciens from the principal Hospitals in the Metro- re
polls, proceeded, in the feet place, to inquire into the re
progress and exteat of that contagious Fever which es
1
durine the I.lst twelve months has'heen so.prevalent. (
In or ter to n:)tain correct information upon this sub- cc
ject, they called for a return of the number of patients nt
who ;hive been admi ted into a Fever Hospital con- In
strutted in Priem -road, and entitled " a House of pi
Recovery." This "ee ilaishme it had its origin in the ca
' year 1802, a period or - eat sickness among the ct
poorer classes of society, it having been preceded by of
I a scacci,.y of i.oal for twoyears. In the year 180 ~ cc
164 patieats, and ia tile > x i 60, i. 185 were admit- at
• i ted into this Hospital. 'fhe return inserted in the of
evidence of Dr. Bateman, Phyician to the Institu- in
it tion for the List fifteen years, shews that the mini-
. mum of sickness was in 1810, when thirty patients tF
only were admitted; and that the average of the ci
I ' three years preceding 1817, when the present epile- w
I li mic may be considered to have commenced, was d:
somewhat more than seventy-six per annum; in the it
year 1817.126 ; and from April in that year to the st
4 same period in 1818, no less than 797 persons were ti
4 patients in this Infirmary. . el
Your Committee then proceeded to inquire as to st
the prevalence of this contagious*.Fever in the diffe- a
rent Hospitals of the Metropolis. • a
• , Dr. I meet, who is one of the Physicians at Guy's, v
- informed them, that in the year 1817 about fifty pa- II
tients were admitted with cases of fever, and in that a
• ending in April, 1818, 2.53.
In the London Hospital, Dr. Yelloly states. that li
' the average number of fever patients may be taken t]
at about thirty for the last five years; that in 1817 t
ninety-seven cases were admitted : and in the first (
.
I three months of this year, no less than thirty-five. 1
I Your Committee have no regular return from St. 1
I Thomas's ; but Dr. Currey, Physician to that Hospi- it
i . tal, says that the number of fever cases was eonside- t
rably greater than in the preceding years. I
..1 At St. Bartholomew's the increase is.also stated to I
be great ; but you! Committechave no return of the
numbers; for Dr. Roberts informed them that no re- I
sister, is kept in the Hospital to distinguish the diffe- I
irant varieties of disease. • t
, At St. George's, the same statement is made by I
Dr. Young; and there also no reeester is kept. t
In the Westminster Hospital, Dr. Tuthill informed I
your Committee, that the ordinary average of fever I
cases may be taken at twenty-five ; while from Lady- I
• day, 1817, to 1818, thirty-eight patients labouring
under this disease have been admitted.
,s In the Middlesex Hospital, the average number of I
contagious fever cases is about sixty per annum, and 4
last year the number amounted to 120. I
Your Committee having thus ascertained the alas.
wing increase of contagious fevers in the Hospitals I
of the Metropolis, proceeded to examine the Physi- I
le . clans of some of the principal Dispensaries. i
,• ' • • Dr. Laird, Physician to the Public Dispensary in 4
earey-street, informed them, in
inthethereierarXe; ;I
1 1 eighty-four. eases of fever were entered
in tele., seventy-six cases; and id 1817, 147; and in i
i [ k the four months of the present year, fifty-nine cues I
t of fever have been so registered. i
Dr. Clutterbuck also states, that for many years 1
ipas:, et' net above twelve cases of typhus had been ad- I
snit ted on their books ; but in the last year there have I
•• : been above 200. I
Ycer Committee thought fit to transmit a series 1
of questions to the diferent Physicians belonging to 1
some of the Dispensaries of London, and to the an-
i swots of which they beg leave to refer. i
Dr. Davies, Physician to the London Dispensary, ;
averages the number of cases of fever in the Estate. (
lishmeut to which he belongs, for a period of eight ;
••• years, to be about 100 annually; while in the last 1
tar they amounted to 309. I
, -
In the Finsbury Dispensary, the mean number of :
fever cases is 66; but from the Ist of May, 1817, to I
1 the same day, 1818, 168 cases were registered,. 1
•
Mt. Burgess, Apothecary to St. Luke s Workhouse, i
.
stated, that he attends, on an average of common I
year, about 150 cases of fever ; in the last year, the
r.
n:r,ger rose to 600. I
Dr. Lincoln states, that his parochial patients have 1
re ~ increased from the ordinary average of 40 and 50 to
.4250 and 300.
I • ,
Your Committee having thus been informed of the 1
extent of this epidemic, and the severity with which
!
, it has fallen on the poorer classes of society, pro-
• , c•nded to inquire into the nature and extent of the
. means afforded, in the way of medical relief, to those
afflicted with this calamity.
s The benevolence of some individuals, aided by a
..
considerable grant of money on the part of the Pub-
lic. has constructed a Fever Infirmary, called 44 the
11 ''• House of Recovery," which is capable of containing
alert sixty-nine patients.
• This Establishment has risen to its extent and con-
sequeece by slow degrees ; it began in a small house
! A
is Gray's Tun-lane, which was capable of containing
I only a very limited number of patients, and its aug-
rneated size is a convincing proof of its acknowledged
I 9' value, no less than its being necessary to the increas-
e e lag wants of the Metropolis. It is supported by vo-
. bettary contributions, the amount of which may be
,
te'een at £450 per annum.
• This Institutioe possesses, besides, a fund of £3OOO
ir. Exchequer Bills, and .C 2682 in the 5 per Cent.
Consols; the annual income being thus somewhat
abre 0540 per annum, The expenses of the three
}errs preceding 1316 amounted annually to £573,1
. v.hile these of the year ending April, 1818, reached
the enormous sum of £1700; to meet this increase of
i
1 , i expenditure above income, the generosity of the Pub-
lic was appealed to, and the sum taken as part of the
. I ,i' capital stock of the Hospital, and which is now held
in Exchequer Hills, was subscribed at a public meet-
ing, summoned for that purpose ; to this fund must
br added a further grant of £lOOO, which has re-
ceater been made by die Treasurer to this Hospital.
,
Your Committee have learned, with great satisfac-
. if sit, the nature of the excellent arrangements select,
'ave ./•.'!3 adopted in this Institution. The zeatend
t
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