Account of Patients admitted into, and discharged from the New-York Hospital, and their diseases, during the year 1809.

Observations on the Weather and Diseases of the City of New-York, from the 1st of January, 1810, to the 30th of June, inclusive.

In recording the weather and diseases of this city, the Editors avail themselves of the reports of the New-York Hospital, the City Dispensary, and the weekly bills of mortality, as well as of their own private observations. They will also occasionally introduce some practical remarks upon those diseases which are of most frequent occurrence, or which, from their fatality or other circumstances, merit attention.

The weather until the 18th day of this month was remarkably mild, the mercury in the thermometer being seldom much below the freezing point. The wind chiefly from the south and south-west, accompanied with a humid state of the atmosphere. Considerable quantities of rain also fell. On the evening of the 18th a sudden alteration took place; the wind changed to the north-west, and blew a constant gale until the 23d, during which time the mercury was at 0; a degree of cold of such continuance had not been experienced for twenty years past.*

* This sudden and very remarkable change in the weather of this month occurred in many other of our states. At New-London (Connecticut) on the 19th, the mercury fell six degrees below zero, and the day was the coldest since 1780. At Boston it was nine degrees below 0. At Portsmouth the variation was in twenty-four hours fifty-four degrees, and on the twentieth the mercury fell thirteen degrees below 0.

The remaining days were mild and fair. A small quantity of snow fell on the 30th.

Prevailing diseases. They consisted chiefly of pneumonia, rheumatism, and catarrhal affections. Several cases of croup (angina trachealis) also occurred during this month. In one instance it appeared with great severity in a lady about twenty-five years of age, who had lately removed to this city from the southern states. This was the first attack she had ever experienced of this disease, having never been subject to it in infancy. Bloodletting and antimonial emetics, with a blister applied to the throat, were immediately employed, followed with small doses of calomel and James' powder. By these remedies she was immediately relieved. Some cases of typhus also occurred: but to persons labouring under consumption of the lungs this month was unusually fatal; sixty deaths from this disease are recorded in the bills of mortality.

Until the 10th of this month the weather was for the most part pleasant: but little rain; and wind generally from the south and south-west.

On the 10th a considetook place; the wind

rable change in the temperature blew strong from the north-west. From the 13th to the 20th generally overcast and rain; wind south-west. The remaining days were mild and pleasant, though somewhat humid. Wind southerly.

Prevailing diseases. This month was remarkably healthy, excepting the usual inflammatory diseases which prevail at this season; but even these were few in num

ber. Some cases of whooping cough are recorded as having proved fatal. Consumption of the lungs, the great outlet of human life in this city, also, in many instances, terminated fatally.

The weather was unusually temperate until the 5th, when the wind blew very strong from the southward during the whole night, accompanied with some rain. On the 6th, 7th, and 8th, the wind continued from the same quarter and some hail, snow, and considerable rain fell. Overcast on the 13th and 14th, when we had more rain. On the night of the 20th, there fell about two inches of The remaining day's were generally overcast or rainy wind north-east. The quantity of rain which fell this month was unusually great.

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Prevailing diseases. Catarrh, sore throat, croup, ophthalmia, erysipelas, pleurisy, and other inflammatory diseases were frequently observed; some few cases also occurred of scarlatina, measles, and whooping-cough, which last diseases had been occasionally met with throughout the winter. Several instances of remitting fever, assuming the typhus character, appeared in the month of March.

At the commencement of April, there was a quantity of rain, with the wind easterly. The weather afterwards