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their report on the subject, in 

 which a heavy charge of neglect 

 is brought against the Irish 

 Government. It is dated Dublin, 

 August 17, and coiiynences 

 thus : — 



" Since the appointment of 

 your Committee more than 4 

 months have elapsed, and though 

 in that interval the progress of 

 the epidemic might have justified 

 your Committee in convening the 

 profession at a much earlier 

 period, they were reluctant to 

 adopt that step, until the efficacy 

 of the measures, then relied upon 

 by the Constituted Authorities, 

 and by the public, for the sup- 

 pression of Fever, had had a fair 

 trial. 



" These measures have now 

 been in full operation during the 

 last ten months, and yet there is 

 no decline of the epidemic ; on 

 the contrary, after sustaining a 

 very trivial reduction in the num- 

 ber of sufferers during the months 

 of March and April, it has ad- 

 vanced with such rapid strides, 

 that in the last month more 

 patients by one-half were ad- 

 mitted under the fever into the 

 Cork-street and House of Indus- 

 try Hospitals, than in February, 

 when the fever of the winter 

 season .was at its height. The 

 mortality of the epidemic has, no 

 doubt, abated ; but a mortality, 

 however great, constitutes a very 

 small part of the many pernicious 

 consequences flowing from the 

 influence of a wide-spread epi- 

 demic upon the lower orders. 

 The following tabular view, the 

 correctness of which may be 

 relied on, exhibits, in a distinct 

 manner, the progress of this con- 

 tagious epidemic, from the date 



of its probable commencement 

 in Dublin, to the present period," 

 • Here follows the table, in which 

 the total amount of admissions 

 into the Fever Hospitals of the 

 House of Industry and Cork- 

 street, from the 31st August, 

 1817, to the 1st August, 1818, is 

 stated at 14',660. The report 

 then proceeds to lament the in- 

 efficacy of the measures pursued, 

 and adds — 



" But the physicians of Dublin 

 did not condemn one plan as 

 inefficient without suggesting 

 another as more likely to succeed, 

 for they did, most strongly, re- 

 commend to the attention of the 

 government and of the public, 

 the measures detailed in the 

 Second Report of the Sub-Com- 

 mittee of Health, ' as alone 

 « competent to check the further 

 ' progress of this formidable epi- 

 ' demic, and as measures which, if 

 ' perseveringly executed, were, in 

 ' their judgment, likely to subdue 

 ' it within a reasonable time.' 

 Unfortunately for this city, and 

 for the wretched sufferers from 

 disease, the warning voice of 

 those the most competent to 

 judge on such a subject was dis- 

 regarded, and Dublin has thereby 

 to deplore a great increase of 

 distress and poverty among her 

 inhabitants, without any imme- 

 diate prospect of checking the 

 evil consequences flowing from a 

 perseverance in measures at once 

 expensive and inefficient.'' 



The Duke and Duchess of 

 Cambridge, accompanied by 

 Prince William and Prince Fre- 

 derick of Hesse Cassel, left town 

 for Dover, on their way, to Han- 

 over. They set oft" about 9 

 o'clock. 



18. Manhcim, 



