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tury; fincerely regretted by his flock as a 
happy man, full of good deéds, as well as years. 
He has defcended to the grave, accompanied 
with the bleffings of both rich and poor, 
with the juft and pious hope of all who 
knew and felt his worth, that his works have 
foltowed him, and will meet their due re- 
ward. 
At High Ireby, Mr, R. Grainger, fon of 
_ Mr. J. Grainger, 
At Stainburn, near Workington, in the 
prime of life, Mifs Thompfon, 
YORKSHIRE. 
A carrot of the following extraordinary 
dimenfions was taken up on the 34 of No- 
vember laft, in the garden of Mr. J. Roddick, 
of Richmond, viz. twenty inches and a half 
in length, and feventeen inches in circumfe- 
rence: it weighed fix pounds, five ounces ! 
It appears that a fever of a very contagious 
nature exifts, at prefent, in different quarters 
of the town of Leeds, and which has, in many 
inftances, proved fatal, owing to the confined 
‘and -unventilated apartments of thofe families 
where it ufually takes place. Although the 
autumn of laft year near doubled the prefent, 
in general mortality, yet the deaths by fever 
are increafed; and the mortality by fever 
for the laft month, is about one half more 
than the correfponding month of 1800. As 
examples of its highly infe€tious nature in 
the clofe and noifome dwellings of the poor, 
and of the impraticability of applying proper 
remedies, the following faés are inferted, 
from information collected by the gentlemen 
of the faculty inLeeds. Ina family, confitt- 
ing of thirteen individuals, five of them were 
infected within the firft four days, and four 
more have fince been attacked. The other 
cafe is {till more deplorable :—Two forlorn 
beds, without linen, and covered only with 
rags, contained fix adult perfons ; the fever, 
attacking one by one, foon fpread through the 
whole, and the dead and the dying lay 
ftretched on the fame miferable “bed; yet, 
fuch was the fatal perverfenefs of the rele- 
tives who attended them, that although 
wine and medicines were at their command, 
they could not be prevailed upon to give 
either, and for two days they received neither 
food-nor medicine. The confequence was 
that the father and mother of the family both 
funk under fuch accumulated wretchednefs. 
Facts, fuch as thefé, clearly thew the ineffi- 
cacy of any meafures fhort of a€tual and timely 
removal from the place of infection. By 
timely removing the firft who fickens, the 
reft efcape infe€tion ; and, inftead of wafting 
their time and ftrength in watching amidft 
infeCtion and difeafe, are profitably employed 
in procuring their own fubfiftence, and pre- 
ferving a numerous family from the parifh. 
The objeét of this merciful care being re- 
‘moved to a comfortable houfe, where the re- 
fources of art can be employed for his bene- 
fit, and removed at a peried when thofe re- 
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fources can be applied with effeét, is cheered 
with the profpeét of a fpeedy return to his 
family. Urged by thefe confiderations, a 
numerous meeting has been lately held in 
Leeds, Mr. Mayor in the chair, to devife the 
beft. means of eftablifhing a House or Re- 
COVERY, inthe cafe of fever patients, and 
to procure a proper building for that purpofe, 
The committee appointed by the meeting 
have accordingly found a houfe in Ebenezer- 
ftreet, which they have adopted as a tempos 
rary fituation ; and they have likewife come 
to a determination, that a fubfcription be im- 
mediately entered into for the purchafing a 
piece of ground in the town, and for ereting 
a Houfe of Recovery for the reception 
of the~ fick in contagious fevers. In 
Marichefter, by an inftitution of a fimilar 
kind, the number of fever-patients were re- 
duced, the firft year from 2380 to 1759, and 
there was a decreafe of 400 burials within the 
fame period, In one diftri@, immediately in 
the vicinity of the fever-ward, the fevers 
were reduced from 400, the average number 
of fevers previoufly to opening the fever- 
ward, to twenty-fix, in the firft year. In 
Chetter, fever-wards were eftablifhed within 
the infirmary fo early as 1783, and though 
one ward is fituated within thirteen yards of 
the fever-patients, with whom it communi- 
cates on the fame floor, by a pafflage and 
doors frequently left open, yet, during a pe- 
riod of eighteen years, it has never been 
once fufpeéted that the patients, in other 
parts of the houfe, have caught any infecs 
tion from the fever-wards, by any contami- 
nation of the atmofphere, nor from any tranf- 
greffion of the rules of prevention. Some 
dwelling houfes are placed at but'a little dif 
tance from the fever-wards, and Stanley- 
place, inhabited by very genteel families, is 
not far diftant. Thefe fats prove undenia- 
bly, that a Houfe of Recovery is by no means 
detrimental to a neighbourhood im which it 
is fituated. In Chefier, fo falutary have been 
its effects for eighteen years, that in-the 
{pring of 1795, when a very fatal epidemic 
taged in. Manchefter, Liverpool, and other 
neighbouring towns; only two cafes of fever 
occurred in the Chefter fever-ward, and not 
one in the reft of the town. An inftitution 
pregnant with fo much good, will, no doubt, 
“meet every due encouragement 5—Hberal fup- | 
port, and patronage from the rich, who muf 
here feel the motive of felf-prefervation, 
added to that of humanity, to induce them to 
fupport meafures for the extermination of a 
difeafe, which by many unavoidable circumes 
ftances, and unforefeen events, may be un~ 
happily introducedinto their own families,— 
and cheerful and grateful acceptance on the 
part of the poor. 
On the 18th of November laft, a venerable 
oak, ftanding in the park of John Elliott, 
efg.of Elliott. Houfe, near Rippon, was 
{truck with lightning, and literaily thivered 
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