┌──────────────────────┬────────┬────────┬────────┐ │ │ Males. │Females.│ Total. │ ├──────────────────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┤ │Moderate │ 116│ 93│ 209│ │Full or Plethoric │ 28│ 73│ 101│ │Muscular │ 44│ │ 44│ │Spare │ 24│ 41│ 65│ │Unhealthy or Emaciated│ 2│ 8│ 10│ │ │ │ │ ———│ │ │ │ │ 429│ └──────────────────────┴────────┴────────┴────────┘ “The whole of these 429 cases were characterized by the typhoid eruption, and will therefore be considered as decided cases of typhus. It appears from this table that there were only 10 cases in an emaciated or unhealthy condition; and almost all of them, as far as could be ascertained, were engaged in their ordinary occupations at the time of their seizure. The spare and unhealthy, when added together, only form about 17 per cent. of the whole number.” He gives two tables of the proportionate numbers of persons admitted, during the year 1839, into the Glasgow Fever Hospital, whose persons were clean or filthy:— “These two tables show that, among 611 cases admitted as continued fever, there were 340 filthy and 271 clean, or about 55 per cent. filthy; that among 395 cases of eruptive typhus, there were 245 filthy and 150 clean, or about 62 per cent. filthy; and that among 48 cases of febricula there were 14 filthy and 34 clean, or about 29 per cent. filthy.” Amongst the fever patients are found a larger proportion of the highly intemperate than appear to be usually found amongst the labouring classes. _Dr. Davidson_, in remarking on the influence of intemperance on fever, adduces the following table to show the proportion of temperate and intemperate individuals who were admitted into the Glasgow Fever Hospital from November 1st, 1838, to November 1st, 1839, whose habits could be ascertained with more or less certainty. He states that the eruptive cases only are included:— Temperate. A little Intemperate. Intemperate. Typhus (MALES) 125 51 73 Typhus (FEMALES) 76 8 30 I have been informed that those were classed as “temperate” who never indulged in strong liquors to the extent of inebriety; those a “little intemperate” who now and again, perhaps at long intervals, drank to intoxication; and those as “intemperate” who were habitually so—who drank whenever they could get ardent spirits. He adds,—