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ence, by exhibiting a fair and exact ac- 
count of all the fatal cafes which have 
occurred during the lak two years.— 
However uncomfortable fuch a review 
May be toa phyfician, I. haye for once 
ventured to make it ; and the following 
ftatcment may be depended upon as pre-. 
cifely correét.—Cut of 2500 perfons ad- 
mitted under my care, in the years 1795 
and.1796,.246 died, from the following 
diforders: of pulmonary confumption 
77,3 hemorrhagy from the lungs 5; 
Peripneumony 1; hooping cough 3; 
cough, fucceecing the meafles, 6; {mall 
pox,20; {carlatina anginofa 2; malig- 
nant fever,3; ilow fever 3; fummer fe- 
ver 13 perpetraitever 2+; ulcerated ma- 
_lignant fore throat 3 ; peritoneal inflam- 
Mation 2; inflammation of the bowels, 
and hernia; 45 Dyfentery.1; ulcer of 
-the rectum 1; pfoas abfcefs: 15 gang-en- 
ous ulcer i; tetanus, with locked jaw, 
23 acute dijeafes of infants, under two 
years of age, 143 ferophula, rickets, and 
tabes mefenterica, 103; hydrocephalus 7 ; 
{chirrus and cancer uteri.3; cancer of 
the breaft 3 ; gradual deciine, moftly with 
fchirrous liver, and dropfy, 21; decay 
from. old age 73 jaundice 13 ftone 1; 
ftoppage of the bowels 2; diforder of 
the fiomach and bowels, from excefs in 
drinking fpirits, 143 apoplexy 6 5 para- 
lyfis 8; obftinate head-ach 13 menor- 
rhagia 3; abortion 1. 
In the above account, the deaths from 
pulmonary complaints, exclufive of the 
hooping-ccugh and meaflés, amouat to 
1-3d of the whole mortality ; which af- 
fords a proof that the proportion flated 
SPE EJ or 3 
State of Public Affairs in April_—Great Britain. 
“That proportion, 
(April, 
in the bills of mertality is not over-rated’ 
during the winter 
months, will be found to vary from 1-3 
to 1-2: In the general bill for the year 
1796, if we exclude executions, other 
violent deaths, and abortive or ftill-born 
infants, the number of deaths is reduced 
to 17,648, of which 5264 are referred 
to pulmonary difeafes. This proportion 
will not differ much from that ftated as 
the refult of my own experience, allow- 
ance being made for the extraordinary 
fatality cf the fmall pox, in many parts 
of the city, during the year 1796. If 
the deaths by the {mall pox, and of in- 
fants under two years of age, be deduét- 
ed from the fum total, the proportional 
mortality from pulmonary complaints, to 
that of all other difeafes, is at 5264 to 
8630, or as 1 to 15, nearly. © 
Tr muft therefore be allowed, that dif- 
eafes of the lungs are more fatal, in this 
place, than any other fpecies of difeafe : 
which is partly referable to the variable 
fiate of our climate ; but perhaps not lefs 
to our modes of liviimg, and to the little 
attention paid in adapting the drefs to 
the change of feafons. 
In my own lift, the article of pulmo- 
nary confumption includes cafes of ulcer- 
ations of the lungs, and alteration of 
their texture, in confequence ‘of pneu- 
monic pues and repeated ca- 
tarrhs. YF apprehend not more than a 
a fourth part of the whole number of 
cafes put down could be referred to 
proper phthifis, arifing from the flow and 
fucceflive fuppurations of tubercles in 
ftrumous conflitutions. 

PAL BETO AT FARR. 
In April, 1797. 
GREAT BRITAIN. 
y -\ casei the clofe of the month of 
March, the people almoft univer- 
fally began to turn their eyes towards 
the throne, as*their dermier refort tor 
the reftoration of peace, and the removal 
of their grievances; and fhowed almoft 
a general inclination to petition the king, 
to. difmifs bis prefent minificrs-. for ever. 
The lvervmen of the city of London 
took the lead im this meafure, and 
though oppofed by their chief magittrate 
and others, they refolved to petition his 
majefty for that purpofe. The Borough 
of Southwark, the city of Weftmintter, 
the counties of Surrey, Hants, Cam- 
bridge, Bedford, Kent, &c. the cities of 
Salidbury, Edinburgh, Canterbury, Glai- 
gow, the towns of Maidftone, Leicefter, 
Nottingham, and cther places,immediate - 
ly followed the example of the capital. 
The Earl of SUFFOLK, in the Houfe 
of Lords, on the 27th of March, called 
the attention of their lordihips to this 
fubjeét. After taking a view of the 
ftate of the country, which, he contended, 
was dangerous if the extreme, his lord- 
fhip moved, “ That an humble addrefs 
be prefented to his majefty, humbly re- 
quefting, that he will be pleafed to dift 
mifs from his councils, his minifter, 
viz. The firft lord of the treafury, whofe 
pernicious meafures, have loft the confi- 
dence of the country.””> Lord Gren- 
VILLE, in reply, defended the conduct 
of the minifter, and the neceility of the 
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