An historic sketch of the causes, progress, extent, and mortality of the contagious fever epidemic in Ireland during the years 1817, 1818, and 1819 ... / by William Harty.

Date:
1820
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Credit: An historic sketch of the causes, progress, extent, and mortality of the contagious fever epidemic in Ireland during the years 1817, 1818, and 1819 ... / by William Harty. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    the House of Industry I am much indebted for the liberal indulgence with which they granted me free access to all their registries, and to Mr. Abbott, the Medical Clerk of that establishment, for the ready cheerfulness with which he aided me in taking advan- tage of that indulgence, and for the polite acquiescence with which, when consistent with his official duties, he attended to every wish I expressed without regard to trouble or personal inconvenience. To my friend Dr. S- Robinson I am equally indebted, as well for the weekly reports from the Cork-street hospital, as for the kind- ness with which he assisted me in correcting some inac- curacies in the general returns from that hospital. Other tables of a useful character, besides those now specified, will be found interspersed through the body of the work, and as an examination of these tables must best illustrate their positive and relative value, I will not extend these Preliminary Observations to a greater length by further illustration, but shall conclude by annexing a report of admissions and deaths in some of our principal towns for the last six months of 1819, to complete the returns for that yeai, which in the Fever tables just noticed had been brought down to the end of June : in these towns the disease had then continued to prevail beyond the ordinary standard.