The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-04-27 00:00:00

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Journal, designates as

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town, and preVent all others coming into it," by
exaggerating the amount of fever and epidemic

which it contains. Certainly we do not feel co
scions of having deserved the imputation; for we are
perfectly aware that, in addition to th 3 injury in-
flicted upon trade, by driving our own gentry out
of town and causing strangers to shun it, nothing
can be more calculated to increase the mortality
caused by fever amongst our population ti
excessive fear which exaggerated representations
are calculated to create.

At the same time, it cannot be said that the jour-
nalist is doing his duty to the public if he either
underrates the evil, or allows any opportunity to go

past him of u

ing upon the autho:

ies and upon

We cannot

precaution

danger to he hushed up, through the fear of being
called alarmists, or for any other consideration.
The existence of a more than usual amount of
sickness in the town is undeniable. Every medical
man is aware of the fact. The parish officers are
equally aware of it. The very fact of two new
fever wards being deemed necessary to meet the
emergency proves it. And although the Journal
thinks the fact, that the number of patients relieved
at the dispensaries during the last fourteen weeks,
has been less than the number relieved in the cor-
responding period last year (some of the

m having

•
been transferred to the parish) is " a sufficient
criterion for any one to judge that the amount of
sickness in Liverpool does not greatly exceed that
of the past year," there can be no truth in medical
statistics and medical science if, with the irruption
into our streets and courts of a horde of half-
famished Irish, filthy in their habits and in their
persons, and with high prices of every article of
food operating to depress the condition of our own
working population, we do not very shortly dis-
cover that disease and mortality are increased very
far beyond our contemporary's calculations.

We- shall not now, however, become alarmists.
Our object in reverting to the subject at ill is to
inquire what is doing to avert the evil which is in
prospect. Is our town cleansed as it ought to be ?
Are the low lodging houses, in which these
wretched visitors and candidates for our charity
herd together, strictly regulated ? Is any attempt
being made even to cleanse their persons and to
prevent them spreading contagion amongst the
casual passengers in our streets, whose eyes they
shock with their studied loathsomeness'

We fea:

little is effectually doing in any of these matters
Granting the full extent and onerous nature of th
1 upon the Council-
Health Committe

luties r

that the
have to

harness in v

t their arrangements may not as

work is new—
yet be fully completed

and their staff of officials

uuequal to the amount of work which the present
emergency will exact from them, we fear that their
energies are at present being applied in a wrong
direction. It would have been wise for the present
to let Rivington Pike and its mosses alone, and to
employ the means at their disposal in practical
efforts likely to be more immediately productive of
benefit. The z might have been pressed
A. few hundred pounds

aveng

forward with more vig

'pent in whitewash and chloride of lime wou

made our lodging houses and cellars and courts
for human beings to dwell in. An in-

[lore i

It of (

Beers would h

induced, cor.

I. increased attention to cleanly
of the

habits (and, by a morc

nt exerci

ects
laws to repress mendicancy, the wILL,A.„,i obj
who throng our streets would have removed h.—
them, in part, the temptation to wear a livery of
AM. frr. 4-1.- or attracting increased com-

,;eration. a The effort must be.inade to effect all
se objects; and it must be timely made. Thus
the weather has aided them in repressing dis-

!ase. But the year is advancing
ire coming on

Warmer days
—closer nights, in which the crowded

of our poor will increase in their un-

healthirie

_ and if we are not prepared, we must
onfess our fear that the result will be deplorable.

CHURCH OF ENGLAND YOUNG MENS' SOCIETY
FOR AIDING FOREIGN MISSIONS.

Yesterday evening a meeting of this society, for aiding
missions at home and abroad, held their first monthly

at the Institution Ho'

ion of the Chu:

AMPTON, of S