Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1837-03-16
Dreadful Effects Of Influenza in England.
LONDON. Jan. Is.

LONDON, Jan. Is.
The melancholy effects of this raging
epidemic in the metropolis and its envi-
rons, has been most severely felt for the
last ight.--During last week, the
greater number Of the clerks at the war
office, admiralty, navy pay office, the
stamp office, the treasury, post-Office,
and other government offices, have been
prevented from attending to their daily
avocations; In consequence Of which
great delay was caused to public business.
La the royal navy hospital of Greenwich,
there have been upward of $50 deaths
among the aged "old tars," and the in
Urinary is nearly filled with those on the
sick list. Sir Thomas Masterman Har.
dy, the gallant governor, has been unre-
hitting III affording every comfort to
them. At the royal military college OF
Chelsea, the deaths have been very
great, and numbers are confined in the
sick wards. At Woolwick the epidem>
&c has been so prevalent, that forty to
fifty men per day belonging to the royal
artillery, royal engineers, sappers and
miners, and the other troops doing duty
! there in The absence of the royal marines
at Passages and St. Sebastian in Spain,
have been admitted into the military
hospital among whom the deaths have
averaged from five to eight per diem, by
violent inflammation of the lungs
Among the three regiments Of Foot
Guards aud the three regiments of Horse
Guards, doing duty at the tower, ST.
| James palace. the Horse Guards, and at
Windsor, the epidemic has ragged to
very great degree so that many of the
| soldiers who are not affected, have been
Obliged 10 do double duty for their COM
rades. At the st. Georges Barracks,
Trafal gar square, the Wellington Bar
racks in the Birdcage walk 81 the Cavalry
Barracks in Regents park and Knights
bridge, extra wards have been appropri-
ated and also in the tower, where it
appears to have attacked the men with
greater effect being so near the water,
than at the other quarters in the West
end. Yesterday the churches, which
have generally full congregations, pre-
sented Dournful scene, by the non at
tendance OF many, who, the Sunday be-
fore were in perfect health, and now no
more, which melancholy event was no.
ticed by the clergymen from the pulpit.
The number OF burlals yesterday after.
noon in the different cemeteries in the
envirous of the metropolis, were as nu-
merous as during the raging of the chol
era in 1892 and '33 At old st. Pancras
burial ground, there were 6S during the
past week. At St. Martins, Camden
Town, ST Andrews in Gray's Inn lane.
ST.. Marylebone, st. Johns, St. Giles's
St. Buke's, Chelsea, and the burial
ground on the Borough and Lambeth side
of the water, where the epidemic APPS
pears to prevail the most, from the low
situation Of the ground, being of an ex.
tremely damp nature, the deaths have
been very great. The police force has
suffered much, as out of that corps there
are upward Of 500 men unable to do dutv
in consequence of the extreme severity
of the weather they had been exposed TO
nightly, for the last three weeks. In
the workhouse the number Of poor who
have died far exceeds any return that has
been made for the last twenty wears.
which circumstance ought to be iBvetti
gated by the Poor Law Commissioners.