1909.] 
to the unreasonable opposition made to 
a moderate advance in the prices of Ad- 
mission to the Boxes and Pit at Covent- 
Garden Theatre. These continued riots 
are discreditable to the Police and Laws, 
both of which will, itis to be hoped, be 
exerted with energy, to put an end to 
them.. The accounts of the House were 
aubmitted to a Committee, and the fol- 
lowing statement published in conse- 
uence :— 
Atatement of the Accounts of the Theatre for 
tbe last Six Tears. 
1803-4. Received .._..- ER 61, 682 13 10 
1304 5. Do. wank eea Met LO 
4805-6. Do. Sete ae, Oe ae. 
2806 7. _ Do. ey ar BELO TD 
4867-8. Do. a wtasecte OS0oR 1a 7 
ALO8-9. Bo, Bnmon cose 46,542 13 0 
——— 
365,983 17 1 
Report of Diseases. 
227 
Deduct the payments in six 
58,074 17 & 
8,000 0 @ 
“50,071 47 -% 
Deduct outstanding debts .. 
Profit, divide by 6 -..... 
Average of each year ...- 8,345.6 2 
1803-4: ni Paid sits en bot 58,926 18 ¥ 
4804, 3){ Dos. c docuide and B1,057 41.6 
VED IG Oe | io sin stream ILO, ete 
"A806 FDO. cues noses 68,591 6 e 
400763 Dan pee ee .. 62,406 8 3 
1808-9, Do. ..a.-«.s-- 47,334 14 2 
r —— — ny 
Deduct what was drawn out 
by the Proprietors....-- 58,179 18 © 
eee 
Paid in six years s.22c.2- 307,912 0 © 
REPORT. OF DISEASES, 
Drader the care of the late senior Physician of the Finsbury DeRensary, pre the 
20th of September, to the 20th of October, 1809. 
Se 
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Pehysis 
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Vermes 
Notwithstanding the remarkable mild. 
ness of the weather,' catarrh has lately 
been very prevalent; a species of indis- 
position, in general, so slight and tran- 
sient, as scarcely to deserve the deno- 
“mination of disease, unless when it oc- 
curs ina frame consumptively disposed ; 
jn which case, when neglected, it often 
Jeads to the introduction of a malady, 
which must be resisted, if ever it is with 
effect, on the threshold; when it has once 
established itself i the constiation, no 
force or art can dislodge the unwel- 
come guest. So that in proportion as a 
weet ©Cevraeevees eB eedcdtde esnsene 
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~ physician increases his practice amongst | 
pthysical patients, be is in danger of de- 
ducting from his reputation. “The most 
effectual way he can adopt, of averting 
the danger of pthysis, is to accelerate 
$e apprehension of it, 
The attention of the reporter has 
been recently recalled to the sub- 
ject of mental .disorder, by fresh in- 
stances of its occurrence to his notice. 
By medical autgors, it has been rgmark- 
AS denneusenciin 
ed, that, in former periods of nationat 
adversity and alarm, there-was a tem 
porary. abolition of what are called 
nérvous complaints. But in the present- 
day at least, the selfisliness of hypochon~ 
driasis does not invariably yield to 2 
sympathy with the public; on the con- 
trary, it may in some instances have been 
partly produced, or aggravated at least, 
_ by the prospect of approaching ruin, and 
the pressure of actual distress. Under 
a view indeed of political affairs, dejec= 
tion ought by no means to be considered 
of disease; low 
spirits may exist, independently of ang 
‘faulg in the nervous system, 
It is notin the adult and fully esta- 
blished form ofinsanity, that we can best 
learn its origin, or become thoroughly 
acquainted with its character. A mad- 
house’ is an insufficient school for ac- 
quinug an intimate knowledge of mad- 
ness. No man would think of | making 
himself a botanist, by studying merely 
a Hortus Siccus; in order to lay any claun 
- to that title, he must contemplate plants, 
not as they are pinned dewn in a port- 
_folio, but at the period when they first 
emerge from the soil, and, in évery suc 
cessive stage of their history and growth. f 
No subject scarcely has ex cited so li’ 
tle, or deserv es so much the attention“of 
scightilic mgn, 25 that of in agains degrangc- 
Facile, 
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366,091 18 
