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PROVINCIAL OCCURRENCES. 
WITH att rHE MARRIAGES anp DEATHS, 
Arranged geographical or in the Order of the Counties, from North to South. 
*.,.* Authentic Communications for this Department are always very thankfully received. 
NORTHUMBERLAND AND DURHAM. 
Sometime ago a fubfcription was entered 
. into, for the purpofe of improving the In- 
firmary at Newcaftle-upon-Tyné, and adding 
The plan was fug- 
gefted by that learned and eminent phyfician 
Dr. Clark, and has been carried on princi- 
pally under his direétion, aflifted by a com- 
mittee of gentlemen belonging to the town 
and neighbourhood. The whole is now 
nearly finifhed, and it promifes to be one of 
the moft complete hofpitals in the kingdom. 
Unfortunately, however, a difpute has arifen 
concerning the appropriation of one part of 
the new building, which-may, for a time, 
jeffen the ufefulnefs of this moft excellent 
charity. At one end of the new building 
has been ere€ted a fpacious and well-venti- 
lated fever-houfe, with a diftin@ entrance, 
offices, and airing-ground (no way commu-~ 
nicating with the other parts of the Infir- 
mary) for the purpofe of receiving fuch pa- 
tients as might labour under infeétious difor- 
ders in the hofpital. As this fever-houfe, 
however, is fufficiently large to be ufed asa 
houfe of recovery for contagious difeafes, 
‘both in this town and neighbourhood, it was 
propofed to open it for that purpofe. The 
plan fuggeited was, that the refpeftive pa- 
tithes fhould be allowed to remove infeéted 
perfons from their own confined habitations 
to this fever-houfe, where, however, they 
were to defray every expence incurred by 
their maintenance, without any charge upon 
the funds of the hofpital. Unexpeétedly fe- 
veral refpe€table medical gentlemen, con- 
wected with the hofpital, oppofed this, from 
a humane, no doubt, but miftaken, dread of 
contagion 5 and the propofal was, a few weeks 
ago, rejected by a majority of the governors 
of the hofpital. This oppofition, thou~h 
its prefent effeéts are to be lamented, will, 
in the end, produce the moft falutary effeéts ; 
and, like the firft prejudices againft the 
common and coOw-pox inoculation, tend to 
fpread the knowledge of ufeful difcoveries, 
and improve the condition of mankind. Dr, 
Clark has been, by it, induced to devote 
much time to the important fubjeét of con- 
tagion, and is about to lay before the public 
a collection of faéts and opinions, furnifhed 
by very many of the firft phyficians and fur- 
geons in this kingdom, which will put the 
fafety of fever-houfes, connected with hof- 
pitals, beyond the poffibility of a doubt. 
As te the utility of fuch inttitutions, there 
cannot be, amonegft thofe accuftomed to ob- 
ferve the condition of the poor, the flightef 
difference in opinion. And it is not, per- 
haps, too much to fay, that cheap and prac- 
ticable means of curing, and preventing the 
fpread of contagion, will leffen the evils of 
poverty more effectually than ail other cha- 
ritable {chemes united. 
‘At the clofe of the eleétion for the City 
of Durham, after a fevere conteft, which 
lay principally between Mr. Taylor and 
Mr. Wharton (the latter of whom very un- 
expectedly became fuccefsfui) the numbers, 
on being announced, ftood as follow? Mr 
Lambton, 530; Mr. Wharton, 5173; and 
Mr. Taylor, 498. The two former gentle- 
men were, of courfe, declared duly elected. 
Among the many improvements which are 
gradually making for the extenfion and con- 
venience of the harbour of Sunderland, isa 
new dry dock, to be erected. on the North 
fide of the water, near the bridge. It is al- 
ready begun, and promifes to be of very 
confiderable utility to the fhipping of that 
port. It will be hewn out of the folid ftone, 
and of courfe will be completed at an enor- 
mous expence, 
His Lordthip, the Bifhop of Durham, has 
lately fubfcribed the fum of rool, to the Li- 
terary and Philofophical Society of New- 
caftle, for the purpofe of eftablithing a pere 
manent le¢turefhip on the various branches 
of natural and experimental philofophy. 
At the late election for the county of 
Durham, Sir Ralph Milbanke and Rowland 
Burdon, efq. were returned without oppofi- | 
tion; Sir Henry Vane having, on Mr. Bur- 
don’s being almoft unanimoufly folicited to 
continue one of its reprefentatives, (in {pight 
of his ardent withes for retirement) declined 
his pretenfions. 
The John and Margaret, Captain Jame- 
fon, of Newcaftle, and the Everetta, -Cap- 
tain Bofweli, arrived lately at Shields from 
Davis’s Streights, the former with 12, and 
the latter with 15 fifh. They left Davis’s 
Streights on the zoth of June. 
Married.} At Newcaftle, Mr. J. Scotty 
Engineer, of Belford, to Mrs. J. Taylor, of 
the North Shore. 
In London, Dr. Trotter, phyfician, now of 
this town (Newcaftle) late phyfician to the 
fleet, to Mifs Everitr, only daughter of the 
late Captain Everitt, who was killed in am 
engagement with a French frigate, called La 
Prudente, in 1799. 
- . Mr. 
