Bateman concluded, not without reason, that this immunity of London from fever was due to the high degree of well-being among the poorer classes in times of plenty; and although he made out that the poor of Dublin, Cork and some Scotch towns did not profit by times of plenty so much as those in London, yet his reason for the abeyance of fever from 1804 to 1816 applied to England, Ireland and Scotland at large, and was doubtless the true reason. The following figures from Manchester[297], Leeds[298] and Glasgow[299] hospitals, as well as the Irish statistics elsewhere given, are closely parallel with those of London: _Manchester House of Recovery._ Year Cases Deaths 1796-7 371 40 1797-8 339 16 1798-9 398 27 1799-1800 364 41 1800-1 747 63 1801-2 1070 84 1802-3 601 53 1803-4 256 33 1804-5 184 34 1805-6 268 29 1806-7 311 33 1807-8 208 15 1808-9 260 21 1809-10 278 30 1810-11 172 15 1811-12 140 18 1812-13 126 13 1813-14 226 17 1814-15 379 29 1815-16 185 14 1816-17 172 6 _Leeds House of Recovery._ Year Cases Deaths 1804 (2 mo.) 10 0 1805 66 6 1806 75 2 1807 35 1 1808 80 3 1809 93 8 1810 75 14 1811 92 4 1812 80 12 1813 137 11 1814 79 4 1815 146 15 1816 121 13 1817 178 8 1818(10 mo.) 254 20 _Glasgow Royal Infirmary (Fever Wards)._ Year Cases 1795 18 1796 43 1797 83 1798 45 1799 128 1800 104 1801 63 1802 104 1803 85 1804 97 1805 99 1806 75 1807 25 1808 27 1809 76 1810 82 1811 45 1812 16 1813 35 1814 90 1815 230 1816 399 1817 714 1818 1371