J 827.] Notes for the Month. 



" Woods and coppices, little suspected in England, yet shewn to be the 

 cause of fevers in Sussex, probably every where else." <4 Meadows and 

 moist pastures, whether onjiat Lands or elevations?' " Rivers, or all flat 

 rivers at least, which are among the causes not suspected in England." 

 " Our author also notices," the reviewer proceeds, " canals, mill ponds, 

 and all other pools and ponds." " Ornamental waters/' including " the 

 basin in St. James's Park, and the pond in St. James's Square. ' He 

 concludes this list of clear and undoubted causes, with the unsparing excom- 

 munication of*' moats, lakes, drains, ditches, marshes, fresh or salt;" with 

 reference to all which, " it is the same, as to the production of disease, 

 whether the marsh \sfoot square, or a mile." And from thence goes on to 

 comparatively obscure or disputed cases ; such as " flax and hemp ponds, 

 sewers, dunghills, winds from the coast of Holland, tide harbours, and 

 bilge water :" " the evidences," nevertheless, even as to these, concludes 

 the reviewer, " being amply sufficient to make good the assertion !" 



Now this forms a pretty stout list of dangerous localities for a gentleman 

 who has meant to show that only "one acre in a hundred thousand " through 

 England is liable to peril. But we give up the Doctor here to follow his 

 Malarian reviewer, whose commentary, in point of terror, distances the text 

 of his author hollow ! " Only as late as in the last autumn," this writer 

 assures those readers who may have been sceptical as to the doctrines of Dr. 

 M'Culloch t( in all the well known tracts in Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Suf- 

 folk, Kent, Essex, Sussex, and so forth, there was scarcely a house without 

 one or more inhabitants under fever I" Nearer London, the same horrible 

 pestilence existed without our even being aware of it. u Throughout 

 the range of streets which extends from Buckingham Gate to Chelsea," it is 

 said, " almost every house had a patient or more under fever." Thus it was 

 also about " Vauxhall and Lambeth : and among all that scattered mixture 

 of town and country which follows from Whitechapel, from Bishopsgate, 

 and particularly along Ratcliffe- Highway, including Rotherbithe." And 

 again proceeding to Deptford, Greenwich, Woolwich, and Piumstead! 

 Want of breath, joined to sheer apprehension, compels us to fly from the 

 pestilential state of things about " Lewisham ;" in which there were " in 

 one house nine patients under fever!" Ditto, as to " Dulwich, Ful- 

 ham, Ealing, and the other villages along the Thames, as far as Chertsey," 

 including even " Richmond, where there was one house" known to the 

 writer, " where ten individuals, at one time, were suffering under this 

 disease !" The whole of this dreadful mortality, as we have already stated, 

 having occurred only in the last autumn. And with the horrible prospect, 

 moreover, delivered to us -that " Whatever was the pestilence last year^ it 

 promises to be much greater in the present one"! ff 



We are sorry to hear this gentleman state that "Lambeth" is among the 

 unwholesome districts; because we should say that (otherwise) there 

 exists an establishment in that vicinity peculiarly suited to the complaint 

 under which he labours. But, what a strange dilemma does this review 

 of Dr. M'Culloch's book place Dr. M'Culloch in bound up, as it is, in 

 the very same yellow cover with his last statement that " Not one acre 

 in a hundred thousand, in England, is subject to malaria at all!" Not one 

 acre in a hundred thousand subject .' We are like the Irish physician 

 tell us where there is an acre that is not subject unless Dr. iVl'Culloch's 

 own friends most wickedly misrepresent him that we may go and end 

 our days there ! 



The most curious part of the doctor's personal article in the " Journal 



