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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Nov 25, 1799
Page
3
A letter dated November 26, 1799, explains De Lam's cautious view on medical matters affecting public safety. He argues that hastiness risks widespread harm and promises to present the transmitted form from the Lonp Mayor to support his cautious stance.
An inquiry at the Steel Yard into reports that two porters Gardner and Ramsay died of plague after handling prize cotton from Smyrna bound for Cadiz is presented. Autopsy findings show pleurisy, pneumonic inflammation, and no plague signs. Doctors Cooke and Hamilton concur the deaths were due to pneumonic inflammation, not contagion.
Historic royal order imposes strict quarantine for arriving ships without clean Bills of Health. Masters and mates must undergo joint inquiries, cargo handling under supervision, and containment measures including vinegar fumigation and paper parcel segregation. Pilots and hospital ship crews face four day quarantine with no contact, under supervision until further order.
The document outlines strict quarantine measures for ships and crews, prohibiting contact between vessels and detailing isolation periods. It lists goods to be opened and aired on Lazarets for 40 days, with procedures to ventilate, rip seams, and have porters reach in for 20 days then repeat for another 20 days to complete the quarantine. It imposes penalties and requires orders from superintendents for any deliveries between ships.
Miss W-, daughter of a local farmer near Norwich, sought shelter at a bookseller's but could not sleep inside due to illness. She drank water repeatedly, ingested arsenic she had bought, cut her arm, and died at eight. No motive or warning could be explained by family or friends.
Alarming rioting mood spreads nationwide over corn costs. A Stockport warehouse owned by Edward Turner collapsed, killing three horses and injuring several others while a child was rescued from the ruins. Reports include Paris Journal anecdotes about Suvorow and remarks on military bravado, with other local thefts and disturbances noted in Halborn and Southampton Theatre.
Reporting from Belfast and Ennis recounts cargo movements including 30s 40,009 battels and 20,000 bayc, arriving coal ships easing prices, and wine from Oporto. A government notice invites troops to aid potato digging amid poor weather. disaster reports describe Captain Roberts and Hope sinking off Belfatts Flats with casualties and missing crew and passengers. Local arrests follow as Connaught officials guard suspects at the Royal Oak Tavern while Irish letters note mail robbing near Sisaqile-brida and Mewm.
Distress actions and prosecutions mark a period of financial disputes in Norwich over water works and dilapidations. In Roxburghshire villagers near Lefindden face suspicion of involvement in late forgeries. A notable case describes forged notes circulated via Berwick and Jedburgh banks, leading to swift arrests and the seizure of the principal suspect, MARAT in Jedburgh.
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