The history of the General Hospital, Belfast, and the other medical institutions of the town : with chronological notes and biographical reminiscenses connected with its rise and progress / [Andrew G. Malcolm].

  • Andrew George Malcolm
Date:
1851
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Credit: The history of the General Hospital, Belfast, and the other medical institutions of the town : with chronological notes and biographical reminiscenses connected with its rise and progress / [Andrew G. Malcolm]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1797-98] MEMORABILIA ANNORUM. 2. — A large number of arrests on charges of sedition and high treason. — The Artillery Barracks in Ann-street, Cooney’s-court. — The Korthern Star suppressed. January 2 Great Town Meeting, in consequence of the Frencli Fleet amving in Ban try Bay. IG A day of public thanksgiving for delivery from foreign invasion. Tlie Sovereign and Corporation walked in procession to Church. 14 The idea of an Hospital publicly adopted. 24 Died, Dr. Thomas Irving, formerly Sur- geon to H.M. 4th Eegt. of Dragoons, Feb. April April and, for twenty years, to the County Infinnarj’. His high character was estab- lished equally as a man, a scholar, and a Christian. April 27 The first Hospital in Ireland, for Fever, opened, with sis beds, in Factory-row, Belfast. May 4 Dr. M'Donnell the first Physician to the Hospital. October 6 First appeal issued on behalf of the Hos- pital. Dec 15 Died, Waddell Cunningham, Esq., aged C8, full of honours both as a public and p>rivate man. E 'll ® — The Lagan Foundry established. — The manufacture of ritriol introduced. An'ests of a vast number this year. January 2 A subscription of £209 collected in aid of the widows, orphans, <ic., of the seamen killed in the British and Dutch engage- ment, on lltli October, 1797. January 7 The Battle of Antrim. Januai-y 10 Died, Dr. William Seed, who practised in Belfast with considerable success. May 27 Maitial law proclaimed in Belfast. June 4 General illumination in hotiour of the King’s birth-day. June 12 Battle of Ballj-nahinch. , Nov. 20 The south range of the Linen-Hall de- stroyed by fire. vtgiit of ■ FTER a period of six months, during which no meeting was held, we j find that, on the 5th January this year, the following members assem- bled to take into consideration the necessary steps to revive the interest which had so unaccountably subsided, viz;—^Val. Jones, jun. Esq., in the chair, Messrs. Francis Jordan, John Gregg, John Bankhead, and Dr. White. At this meeting it was resolved, that the subscribers should be called together, on an early day, to decide whether the Dispensary shall be continued or not; and, in the meantime, the collectors were urged to resume their labours. Accordingly, on the 19th January a meeting was held. Rev. W. Bristow in the chair, when a statement of the expenses incurred, the amount of sub- scriptions received, together with a report of the number of patients relieved for