Production and Propagation of Malaria. 101 



It 18 notorious that, m the last autumn, the remittent 

 fevers in various parts of the country amounted to a species 

 of pestilence, such as has scarcely been known in England 

 from this cause, or we might almost indeed say, from any 

 other disease since the days of Sydenham. Wherever ague 

 had ever existed, or even been supposed possible, in those 

 places was this fever found : so that in all the well-known 

 tracts in Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Kent, Essex, Sussex, 

 Hampshire, and so forth, there was scarcely a house without 

 one or more inhabitants under fever, while the event, as might 

 be suspected, was a considerable mortality. In the parish 

 of Marston, in Lincolnshire, for example, it amounted to 25 in 

 300 inhabitants ; in some other places, it reached one in 

 sixteen, one in thirteen, one in nine. And so extensive was 

 its range, that even Hastings did not escape ; while it should 

 be almost superfluous to say that every other town on the 

 sea-coast was so much infested by it, that they who resorted 

 to them for bathing, as usual, found themselves most awk- 

 wardly situated, and also suffered in considerable num- 

 bers. 



To come nearer home, and to what must interest us of the 

 metropolis more, the same fevers were extremely abundant 

 in various parts of the outskirts of London, as also in the 

 villages or towns which are connected with it, within a range 

 of from six to ten miles. Not to enumerate all these, this 

 was the case throughout the range of streets or houses which 

 extends from Buckingham Gate to Chelsea ; in which long 

 line, it is said, that almost every house had a patient or more 

 under this fever : though, as the author has truly observed, 

 these were mistaken for typhus, or at least thus misnamed. 

 Thus it was also about Vauxhall and Lambeth ; and to a 

 great extent among all that scattered mixture of town and 

 country which follows from Whitechapel, from Bishopsgate, 

 and so forth, and very particularly along Ratcliffe Highway, 

 and so on, to an indefinite range along the river, not only on 

 this side but on the opposite one, so as to include Rother- 

 hithe, and then proceeding onward to Deptford, Greenwich, 

 Woolwich, Plumstead, so as to carry us beyond the boundary 

 which we proposed to notice. 



And in addition to the towns or villages which we have 

 just named, we may enumerate Lewisham, in which we knew 

 one house in which there were nine patients under this fever, 

 which proved mortal to one. Dulwich, especially subject 

 to this disorder, Fulham, Ealing, and the several other Vil- 

 lages along the Thames, as far as Chertsey ; and even Rich- 



