1817 511 33 1 in 15-16/33 1818 1572 75 1 in 21 1819 1027 30 1 in 34 (to 1 Dec.) Of this epidemic several accounts were published at the time, including one by Welsh, superintendent of the fever hospital, which is dominated, like the Bristol account of Prichard, by the idea that blood-letting cut short the fever[323]. Christison, who had experience of the relapsing form in his own person[324], describes also two other forms mixed with the cases of relapsing fever: a mild typhus, the _typhus mitior_ (_typhus gravior_ being exceedingly rare in that epidemic), and a form which began like the inflammatory relapsing _synocha_, and gradually after a week put on the characters of mild typhus. The admissions for fever to the Glasgow Infirmary, which was then the only charity that received fever cases, had been at a somewhat low level since the last epidemic in 1799-1801. They began to rise again with the distress of 1816:-- _Admissions for Fever, Glasgow Infirmary._ Year Cases 1814 90 1815 230 1816 399 1817 714 1818 1371 1819 630 1820 289 1821 234 1822 229 1823 269 At the height of the epidemic in 1818 an additional fever hospital was opened at Spring Gardens, to which 1929 cases were admitted in that and the following year. Great efforts were made in Glasgow to “stamp out” the contagion by disinfectants and removal to hospital[325]; but the course of the epidemic seemed to follow the economic conditions more than anything else.