[164] A Report &c. and of other Crown Cases. By Sir Michael Foster, Knt., some time one of the Judges of the Court of King’s Bench. 2nd ed. London, 1776, p. 74.
[165] The Gentleman’s Magazine however says (1750, p. 235): “There being a very cold and piercing east wind to attack the sweating persons when they came out of court.”
[166] See Bancroft, Essay on the Yellow Fever, with observations concerning febrile contagion etc. Lond. 1811.
[167] Gent. Magaz. 1750, p. 274: “Many families are retired into the country, and near 12,000 houses empty”—an impossible number.
[168] Sir John Pringle, Observations on the Nature and Cure of the Hospital and Jayl Fever. Letter to Mead, May 24. London, 1750.
[169] One of the cases was that of an apprentice: “Some of the journeymen working in Newgate had forced him to go down into the great trunk of the ventilator in order to bring up a wig which one of them had thrown into it. As the machine was then working, he had been almost suffocated with the stench before they could get him up.” Pringle, “Ventilation of Newgate,” Phil. Trans. 1753, p. 42.
[170] Thomas Stibbs to Sir John Pringle, Jan. 25, 1753. Ibid. p. 54.
[171] “Ventilators some years since when first introduced, it was thought, would prove an effectual remedy for and preservative against this infection in jails; great expectations were formed of their benefit, but several years’ experience must now have fully shewn that ventilators will not remove infection from a jail.” Lind, Means of Preserving the Health of Seamen in the Royal Navy. New ed. Lond. 1774, p. 29.
[172] J. C. Lettsom, M.D., Medical Memoirs of the General Dispensary in London, 1773-4. Lond. 1774.
[173] Gent. Magaz. 1776, April 22. p. 187.