Report. With an appendix.

  • Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Contagious Fever in Ireland.
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[1818]
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    GREAT SKlTA !M PaUievruuJ- H 0%a£±Q,. (Z&iYLSf) CrtAC REPORT FROM THE^SELECT COMMITTEE ON THE Contagious Fever in Ireland; WITH AN appendix. Ordered, by The House of Commons, to be Printed, 8 May 1818. TH,E SKLEC I COMMITTEE appointed to inquire into the state ot 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 tune, with their Observations thereupon, to The House; 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 •— *P TTAVE considered it their duty, in proceeding in the task allotted to them, to A 1 pursue the course which the order of reference has pointed out, ofascer- taining, in the first place, as far as they were enabled to do, the State of Ireland, as to the increased prevalence of Fever during the last and present year: the period from whence the commencement of that increase may be dated, in diffeient parts of that Country; the extent to which it has proceeded, and the present condition, whether of diminution or increase of the malady in different districts; together with their reasons for believing that such diminution or character™^ ^ pr0gresslve’ or that the disease has assumed a more permanent ,, The,gI?atT increa?e of this malady may, we think, be dated pretty generally through the Island from the Spring of 1817; in some places commencing with the months of March or April, in others, not until July, and even August The Reports of the Fever Hospitals of Cork and Waterford, clearly tracf the great increase of Fever in those cities to a period much earlier; in Cork as far back as the Autumn of 1816; in Waterford to January I8I7. We advert to these reports particularly, because, as far as respects these large and populous cities, they furnish, m detail, the most ready means of judging accurately as to the progress and extent of the disease, from the monthlymbles of admlssTons and deaths which are annexed to them. From Belfast also, we have the monthly returns of that Fever Hospital, in which the material increase is noted as coni mencing with the month of August. Of Limerick, where the disease appears to have raged very violently, we only know that nearly 2,600 Fever Patients have been under cure in the Hospitals during the last year, and 7Q4 to the 7th nf April of the present year With respect to Dublin/ the very accurate and ^re,d//p0,rti0f the, .^edlcal Board> presented to the Lord Lieutenant on the loth ot March last, which we have given in the Appendix, together with several other documents, shows the great and rapid weekly increase of Fever in the Capital from the 1st September 1817, when the entire number of Fever Patients in all the Hospitals amounted to 218, to the 28th February 1818, when it had 285. A risen ADMISSIONS. In Waterford, in 1814 - - 175; D° - in 1815 - - 403; D° - in 1816 - - 307; D° - in 1817 - - 930. No application for Ad¬ mission fruitless. Deaths, as one to 26. Admissions in Belfast: One year to May 1816 - 102 ; 1 d° to May 1817,196; Eleven months to 1 April 1818, 1,450. In May 1817 June - - July . - August September October - November December January - February - March - - - 25 - 29 - 38 - 76 - 164 - 201 - 200 - 228 - 193 - 142 - 154.