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VI. An Account of fever al Perfons feized 
with the Goal-Fever, working in Newgate ; 
and of the Manner , in which the InfeEiion 
was communicated to one intire Family ; by 
John Pringle, M % D. F \ R. S, 
Head Feb. i,TT TAVING lately had an opportunity 
*753 of feeing feveral cafes of the true 
goal-fever anling from the gaol itfelf, I thought it 
would not be improper to lay before the Society a 
fhort account of the manner, in which thofe perfons 
were feized, the chief fymptoms and progrefs of the 
difeafe, with fome remarks upon it, in order farther 
to illuftrate what I have advanced elfewhere, concern^ 
ing the danger arifing from foul air, and the agree- 
ment of this diftemper with what has been called the 
fever of the hofpital, or more generally a malignant 
or peftilential fever. 
In the month of October i/yo, a committee of 
the court of aldermen was appointed to inquire into 
the belt means for procuring in Newgate fuch a pu- 
rity of air, as might prevent the rife of thofe infec- 
tious diftempers, which not only had been deftruCtive 
to the prifoners themfelves, but dangerous to others, 
who had any communication with them ; and parti- 
cularly to the courts of juftice upon the trial of male- 
factors ; whereof a fatal inftance had occurred that 
year at the feflions held in the Old- Bailey, when the 
lord mayor, two of the judges, and one of the aider- 
men upon the bench, with feveral other perfons then 
prefent, were feized with a malignant fever, and died. 
The 
