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Rh The beneficial effects of the House of Recovery. which has not yet been opened a year and a half, are almost beyond belief. The facts are, however, established by authentic documents.—The number of fever patients (as entered in the Physician's book at the Infirmary) in Portland-street, Silver-street, and the other streets in that pile of buildings, in the neighbourhood of the House of Recovery, for the two preceding years and eight months, were 1,256, something more than the average Of 400 a year: —those in the same district from July 1796 (a period commencing two months after the establishment of the House of Recovery) to July 1797 (being twelve months) were only twenty-six;—of these there were, in July 1796, only five such patients; in August, but one; in September 1796, none; and in the four last months, from March to July 1797, only one fever patient.

In the report of the weekly Board of the Infirmary at Manchester, notice is taken of the extraordinary effects of the House of