15 JUNE 1867, Page 3

The Chronicle publishes an alarming account of a new epidemic

'which has broken out in Ireland, and is known as the " black death." The patient seems feverish, gets incoherent, and exhibits purple spots, which spread rapidly over the whole body, are attended with extreme pain, and are followed by death, usually within a few hours. Eighteen hours is the regular duration of fatal cases, and the instances of recovery are very few. The physicians of Dublin are doubtful whether to consider the disease a new form of cerebro-spinal malady, or of blood-poisoning, like typhus, butathere is evidence that it is contagious. Perhaps the worst feature of the disease is the extreme pain which accom- panies it, and which makes children when attacked scream them-