Second report from the Select Committee on the Contagious Fever in Ireland.

  • Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Contagious Fever in Ireland.
Date:
1818]
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Credit: Second report from the Select Committee on the Contagious Fever in Ireland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SECOND REPORT FROM THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON THE Contagious Fever in Ireland. Ordered, by The House of Commons, to be Printed, 26 May 1818. THE SELECT COMMITTEE appointed to inquire into the state of Ireland, as to the prevalence of Contagious Fever in that part of The United Kingdom, and to investigate the causes, -temporary and permanent, which have led to the increased progress of this destructive Malady during the last and present year, and to report the same, from time to time, with their Observations thereupon, to The House j and also to report such measures, remedial and preventive, as may seem most efficacious to arrest its further extension, to guard, as far as human foresight can provide, against its recurrence, and to secure adequate means of support to the Establishments destined for the relief of the Diseased;—Have further considered the matters to them referred, and have agreed upon the following REPORT: FROM the probable approach of the prorogation of Parliament, the Committee have been reluctantly compelled to postpone the very important task of a more extended inquiry into the permanent cause of the existence of Fever in the different parts of Ireland, which arise from want of employment for its industrious population, with a view to discover ade¬ quate means for their radical and effectual removal as far as may be prac¬ ticable. They have confined their recommendations for the present therefore to the establishment of Hospitals for relief of the diseased, to securing the funds destined to their support, and to such means as appeared to them best adapted to arrest the progress of the Epidemic, under circumstances of calamitous increase. An Act is in progress, whose provisions will, they trust, materially conduce to effect these desirable objects. They cannot, however, terminate their sittings without earnestly impress¬ ing on the House, that the continuance of Fever in very many parts of Ireland, with little abatement, requires assiduous care and increased liberality from the Public in aid of the voluntary contributions, from which the hospitals for relief of the diseased in the country parts of Ireland, have hitherto, in a very great degree, derived their support. This is the more necessary, since as the Medical Board have very truly stated, that with the exception of £. 1,000 raised by subscription for the Cork-street Fever Hospital, the whole of the expense of providing for the Capital has been defrayed by Government, whilst in other cities and districts of Ireland, where Fever has prevailed to as great an extent, compared with 359. E their