Star.
London, England, 1818-07-13 00:00:00

OF INFECTIOUS rEvitn.s.

Infectious fevers occasion much misery and mor-
tality among Mankind: they produce the greatest
wretchedness in poor families; but person& in all ranks
of life are in some degreeiosed to the danger.—
This fatal pestilence is most destructive in large
towns, but it often spreads in country villiges for
months and even years together. The intelligent and
benevolent inhabitants of any place, may, however,
with ease and certainty, preserve their poor neigh-
bears and themselves from infectious fevers and all
their calamitous consequences, by forming themselves
into a Society,and by providing a commodious house,
or wards for the reception of such patients, and by
carrying into effect, the following
REGULATIONS.

' I. Let a reWard of one shiiliag be given to the person "60
brio., the first information to toe Society, that an im.:euLt.:3 lo-
ver Las attacked any foldly I let this ;cooed be ante r...,..ci to
two shillings, if the lotenigentabe given within three ...e.7s a:7.er
0.. fever Srst beam in the family.
" IL 1,-tibe patient ill of the fawn, be roam"! to the hospital
of the day when stich information is given. Ha must he ureic:
in a sedan chair of a peculiar colaur, to ha sinvil.qed wkly for
this purpose, with a moveable knee Lantz, whilb u always to be
taken out and shaken in the fresh air alter it has been used, and
141 Se frolottitil w•thed: let the sedan be constructed in such a
stusesser. as to ican,bailward in various degrees, so that the pa-
tients may Bole a tecumbent, or balfrecutahen, posture, as' nay
beat sail their at:with. A stair purposes of the satiety W.:: be to
remove from the house the lira. patheat w:an it atta44::.; ;.adupossible.
,8":!1% I, . The houses whence disputant b removed to tile fever-
wal,d, most be laninedistely chimed; and all tbe dirty clexhits,
sitensils,*ato. most be hummed in mid water. When IL, clothes
are wrung out of It they must be ettehanged for a srms, With clean
secood.hand clothes, as a skirt fora shirt, a 'beet he "Ant, fee.
to be supplied by tu..: charitable society, Eva", boa. drawer, der.
in the infectiAu house !cum be emptied and cleaned ;—the Poor
mutt be swept clean, and tams rubbed with IS wet cloth or mots ;
arestialreaustbe Admitted so sate pasathrotigte the chamber be-
e:worm skim and a window;' the Walls must be washed clean
where bade:tied with contagious dirt.
..; ".I.V. The clothes received from the pooe wrung
eat of the cold wattr, must be again washed in sc.+ r peoil
-1,',1 ve..:::.
"weir ; that wben patched and cleaned, they n-. 3/ be kaa. Lin-
-Olt-4. ,
... V. A medical Tiaripma should bo appointed to see th.ise
fordati.ms exesuted, at a competent salary 0:10:4her with see-
ietain .tesvarils ac•ckweriatE'to the success of his me.uures : • he shoold
la entitle:: tu,a rew.iad of for each (..,:illy, which hit aeon pre-
. keyed Iron, Infeetion by Its attention, iihei; case la it Lid been
attackeel the fever.
• ..• Vl.' itis poor family, whose house has • been eleansedW
bac dimmed (itcyrdbag to a' critpastifrom the Witte:or Which
151404 • y mei circumstance abovessiszationed In the 3d, tugo-
i
Irfon) sh be icdtied to 'rewind of i and, trete. rensainticr
• of tbe far ' y continue untaftireed for six weeks after the Most
lehre-patient has been removed to the kusyital, the said family
ma* l?e Matted to a farther reward of . The inspector sha:l
give the family a promissurrnOte, oe a certificate, for thus purpow.
a vu. Thu inspector mast keep a register of infectious fevers,
sipeolitetante plan as was executed with success, fur de years,
likthe inspector oi" the Small Pox Society at Chester i la Wilich
is eatereei, in separate columns of a table, I at, the paticeet more;
west; sd, occupation; 4th, when Cue fever began ; Stn,
. .
• Might not a leaden casement or caw elniap oorttivance be
Bassi in tiin top of a ',lnclose of each roues, it this esposenf the i
I eimllard. or a uti*.:ty, to Supply fiah air, WSicli ii L,,t e4stiaL,
Le :Le .„revatitie:- ..,f ~...tee,ava ? I

-,ernscr ail of fever in each- fun*. 6th, dote of information :
7th, sl,:e is: removal; oth, whence ink-clad ; 9th, when Ma. ,
1.,51 sued; 10th, family infected, or preserved; lira, regula-
tions observed or transgressed. ~
IA VIII. Leta copy of these REGOLAitIMei be printed ups*
one page, and be placed in every house infated by a feve'r, -and
In every house in the neighbourhood, which loaaVditiger of re.
ceichig the infection. By such instructions, pi* people will be
enabled to give timely notice to the society so as to avert Mel
dreadful calamities which they would otherwise suffer.
" The hsaifit:l these regislatieAfeeirrV ~eJr &mill,: r.,,,,
2 all the variety ~ teretchrtinest Joy inf raw a'fraers, 14.! be
*godly in 'trope...lion to the sioiril ' nasals& suldushich they are
asswerasel.
" The maims, judicioits, and vieoestrful erertimke the Board q
Health at lifoneheaer, in 1796, Cronin: thefts/1:4 o.gtfirosanun if the
prineieks said the practice! conefusiow, tritiek Dr. Ilaygarth hise de-
tailed us his letter, latch published and a.lefresced to Dr. Percival,
.et the preventiot of infi.cii *afore; p. 100,109, 110. 11.: . face.
Oen: staled prnoc,itegoad all tots •oversy. thet the erigulotimss above re-
ewshaeruled f i foityally erecnied, all supprosainfin-Nuns fevers in a
i
//Oa UXIMAIC vl 7/1/4 nner. But it ii manifest that, eveysaittrda, for tla
religion o poor peOpli, unaided try ma:forums hi purify their habita-
tions, Wel annex this puiptue in si very iwipeV'ect nsansser.-7th
14.1 y, 1932."
Its Chester, as in most large towns,the typhus fever
had long prevailed, but was generally confined to the
dwellings of the poor. In 1783, it was communi-
cated, and was fatal to some persons of higher rank,
which occasioned a general alarm of danger, as all
were then manifestly exposed to it. Oa that occa-
sion I proposed to receive patients ill of typhus into
I:er-irate wards of the Chester Infirmary, and to
cleanse their hcuses from all contagillis dirt. This
imeasure has been accomplished with complete sacs
cess. In this manner, typhus has been exterminated
from Chester for 35 years, thotigh frequently, as
above esplaiued, brought thither by persons infected
in other places. In October 1817, Dv. Edward Per-
cival visited the fever-wards of the Chester Intl, !nary,
where he found only two patients, and one of them
was ill of an i :id in-illation of the 'wags. Ile it•ked
whether there were not usually more.patientria these
wards? and was answered in the negative. Many
towns have followed the example of Chester, in estab-
lishing Fever Hospitals ; but. so far as I know, few
or none of thecei have completely- executed the iecont-
parehly more important regulations of cleansing Ca
dwellings of the poor patients front contagions dirt. In
towns where even Fever Hospitals themselves are
not kept clean, nor supplied with flesh air, no hope
iwhatever can be entertained that the infectious habi-
-1 tations of the lower orders of people will receive the
benefit of the proposed salutary purification. A most
intelligent medical friend of mine viewed the Fever
Hospital at Liverpool in October 1317, and found it
so close, and smelled so offensively, as to express to
me repcatedly,liis apprehensions, that be had, by that
visit, exposed himself to much danger of infection.
The Newspapers have since announced that a physi-
cian of this hospital, Dr. Barrow, had caught and
died of a typhus fever.
.Dr. Carson, the oti,er pity-,
sician of this hospital, has since that time had a fever
from which he recovered. In the same town, Dr.l
Cioldsmith, and Mr. Carter, surgeon apothecary to
the dispensary, have lately died of the typhus fever.
These events' prove how truly and how accurately an
estimate of danger from infection had been formed
by my medical friend. In a Dublin hospital, can.'
tahling many more patients ill of typhus, he had for
five years attended his daily duty as a physician,
without any injury or apprehension of danger, merely
by requiring strict attention to cleanliness and veatila-
tion.—The hales and Regulations above given do net
depend upoa conjecture, but on much more cousin•
sine evider.ce than most other kinds of medical and
philo.ophical knowledge. They are founded upon
facts, observed by myself, and confirmed by the tes-
timony of many impartial and intelligent medical
witnesses, and upon the uniformity of the Least by
whi.:ll contagion spreads anion; ma:Ai:Md. Lipoa
these </filo calculations are instituted to prove the
truth of these practiaul principles to the high proba-
bility of hundreds, iudeed many hundreds to one.
Being fully convinced thai these RoLas and lig-,
Out.s.rtows might save many lives, and preserve the
lOwer orders or pestle from great wretchedness, I
anxiously request that they may be copied by Edi-
tors of Newspapers and oiler Periodical.eablications,
which, by the general ditTusioa of knowledge, are
become so highly useful and :..anou.rable to this age
and nation.

Tuesday, Sharp, waggcr.er to Mr. Eicher,
while passing with his waggon through Suargatea
street, Dover, suchlenif dropped down and expired.
Ftaa.--Satarday night an alarming fire broke out
ir. Newton-Areet, High Holbol.a. It ccmutendod in
the stabae of idessrs. Sraeenn, feather-belmakers,
whose boy had bee.: in the stable; at the back of the
premises, and immediately under the feather-bed ma-
nufactory. About ten o'clock he saw no appearance
of fire, while he was in the stable, but :a short time
after he had quitted it, he heard a crackling noise,
and immediately opened the stable door, and foand
the place all iu a braze, which soon communicated
to the wanufaetory and Louse of Mr: SP itNCIII, whose
whole premises and valuable property, worth about
seven thousand pounds, were entirely consumed in
less than half an hour :he is insured. The whole of
the premises between arciscaa's house in Newton-
street, and the, back :4 Mr. Jaszcsos'a coach manu-I
factory, in Little Qaeen-street, are entirely consa-
wi:h the whole of the property they contained.
The premises of Mr. Mou..a, a coal-merchant, in
which were a quantity of old coach wheels, Ste. were
entirely destroyed ; as also the premises of a coadh-
spring maker, who a the only sufferer that is not in-
sured. The house of Mr. Tomas, a publican, next
door to SPUN can's, has suffered considerably from
the fire, and hehas lost a quantity of fair.iture, &c. to
the amount 'of foar hundred pounds and upwards ;
a carpenter's shop was burnt to the ground. Mr.
Jasia.soN's pweinises are not much injured by the fire,
but in removing a nunaber of coaches, &c. to save them
from the fire, duey are all very much uatnaged, and
some missing. Messrs. SCUOLLS and Davis, coach-
aanakers, have Suffered in removing their property is
'much the Same manner as Mr. Itsissox. Happily
no lives have been lost. - Neither of the' Messrs. Sawa-
latex ware at home when the calamity took
Mrs. P. Skllgoilt was in the house, with six young
children, who, by the assistance of the Watchmea-and
others, were safely rerr.ovrci.
. _ _

Another e:ilamity of he tame kind • broke out-
abou t six o'Clock, :in the Tear of tile premises of
LAcx isoTON And Co..flnsbury-spiiiiire, but it .*Pki;
sixelily check:.4, in:,tiry o-catk';:::.l.lraf
lA/. uu.enai.

POLras.

GUrLIMALI.--.lateph Coon& iottet ebarged, nti.Ses•
turday, Oth having attempted to eller ajarged One-
Pound Rank of Englund • .Vate.—The prisoner had
gone into the liquor• Shop of Messrs. Thompson and
Coates, on Holborn-hill, and •in payhtent titer a small
quantity of gin he tendeied the note in question., Mr.
Coates perceiving the note to be a forgery, asked the
prisoner where' he had got it ? He replied, that he
had it from his master, Mr. Arnold, of Plough-court,
Fetter-lane. Mr. Coates then told him that it was a
forgery, and he should retain it, unless he brought
Mr. Arnold. He then went away With much appa-
rent unwillingness, and returned in about an hour, in
company with another man, AA an ill-looking fellow,"
who, upon being asked if his name was Arnold, he-
sitated to reply, appeared mach agitated, and at
length gave another name. After a great deal of
talk, the prisoner and his companion said they would
call again next day and endeavour to settlo it. As
they were going out of the shop; however, the priso
ner asked to see the note that he might take the num-
ber of it, and know it again. While pretending to
take the lumber of the note, the prisorier made a
snatch at it, obtained_the greater pit of it, and in-
stantly rushed towards the door, with a view ta es-
cape, but he was secured at the dom. Ti._ prisoner
said, that he and the man who went to Mr. Cuate's
shop with him, hail found the note in Fleet Market ;
they were of course very much pleased with it, and
agreed that he should go and get it changed that
they might share it: with this view he went to the
shop, as already described, and asked the barmaid to
look az the note, gad xe if it was all right before he
drank the liquor—she then took it to Mr. Coates,
who told him he should keep it ; an he then went to
his companion, who agreed with him that he had no
i i,;11: to keep it, Ansi tile it might not be a bad one;
and thetefere they determined' o go again, and at-
tempt to recover it ; and when he found that nothing
else would do, he certainly did snatch it.—The Soli-
citor ef the Bank persisted that the circumstances
were extremely suspicious, and urged that the priso-
ner should be again remanded to sonic future day.—
The Magistrate, however, said 11A was cl a very dif-
ferent opieion. Had she prisoaer known the note to
be a forgery, he v. mild hardly have arplied for it a
second time. 'rue ilison,:r W.Li then distharged. _
A man in respectable circumstances nisi:led Jahrtron,
was charged by the Overseers of the ?arida in which
he resided, with having deserted his wife aad two
infant children. The prisoner for some time had
carried so an extensive business as a baker, iis Iron-
monger-lane, Cheapsidel where he had been married
to a respectable female. About a fortnight sin.e he
unexpectedly disposed of his house and business for
800 guineas, engaging to quit the latter on the day
subsequent to the sale. As a cense for this, he re-
presented to his wife that he had obtained a situation
as a coal-meter, by which be could secure an easier
livelihood than his trade would Alford him. Oa the
day on which he had agreed to leave the house, he
1t home, saying that he would ratan in hatfan
hoar, but he did not return, ans at twelve o'clock
at night she was =Tenet' tia abandon the house,
and to go into the street with her twoinfant children,
the other parties having claimed possession of the
concern. The wife then threw herself and children
on the parish fur support.—Mrs. Johnson, an ex-
tremely interesting young woman, came forward,
and was several tin.es during her examination over-
possered by feeling and agit.i.ion. The appearance
of her children also excited the strongest int:it:rest,—
' The prisoner did eke: deny that he had deserted his
family, but said he was driven to it by the machi-
nations of individuals, who had -excited -issentiona
between him and his wife. He was rict only willing,
but anxious, that his wife should return to his home r.
on condition, however, that she should alter her en-
tire conduct.—Alderman Biaca, who presided, said,
" it is your duty to return toiler, whom, having :than-
, doted, you now talk of coming back to you. 1 tell
you, yea are boand by law to protect and main-
, tali' your wife and children, and that law will
compel you su to do." The prisoner now expressed
a desire to enter into some arrangement
.w... 1 the

Overseers of the Pm ish to maintenance.
The parties retired fur this purpose; and having
again appeared, the matter was 02 klurA to stand over
for furt►er discussion.
M. R. Hill, a merchant in the City, appeared to
answer the complaint .of Mr. T. Robinson, who is a
merchant also. It appeated that on F►iday Mr. R.
was stall...hag. on Change, in conversation with Wale
foreign when Mr. Hill, the defendant.
came up, and said, in a voice whit► might be heard
throughout the whole place—" Robinson, when do
you mean to settle that account e Recause if you
don't settle it soon, I'll arrest you." Mr. R. asked,
" What account '1" when, without further cereinouy.
Mr. Hill seized him by the collar, with one hand,
whilst with the other be gave him a blow on the face.
This salutatioa Mr. R. -lost no time in returning in
kind, and probably the curremt account would have
been settled on the spot, but, for the prompt inter-
ference of the Gentlemen on 'Change. This stAte-
ment was partly corroborated by two witnesses,
whilst on the contrary a Gentleman, whose name Jid
not appear, went into a long statement to prove t►at
Mr. IL. was at least a partsceiss eriudimia in the affray,
and that Mr. H. having " simply collared him." he
laid about him with such fury that if it had not been
for the bye standers " it was impossible to say what
might have been the consequence."—Mr. Hill him-
self, who appeared with a silk handkerchief round his
head in consequence of his bruises, said, that he did
not mean to deny having first committed the assault
by collaring Mr. R. but he considered he had such
just cause of provocation that he would make no
concession whatever, being determined to defend the
action to the uttermost. The Magistrate regretted
that determination, but had no alternative except to
bind him in sureties to appear at the Sessions. Dail
, was thea put in.

II Monday, John Cator was committO to Bnry jail'
by John Wayman, Gent. Coroner for that I.i(wrty,
charged upon the Coroner's inquest with the wiaui
murder of James Fitches, ou Saturday
parish of Gezeley, by stabbing him wit% a litrg
clasp knife,. The prisonor gild toe dercasod
,!.f;ether, and apr.r..0.1
b:twolla