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Mon,
until, among the Police, a body of 78 then,
• fever than 42 have been on the sick list, in the month of May. I find it necessary to state, that, during the first fourteen days of June, (up to this date), "the number of Policemen ill, has not only been greater, but, that two have died, with all the characters of the virulent fever of last year.
sick, remaining still, that four
are
dangerously so, with all the peculiar symptoms that, have already proved so fatal.
The constant exposure both night and day, to which the policemen are necessarily subjected, must always make them liable to much sickness : it is not sufficient, however, to account for the number and severity of the illnesses, unless we take into consideration,
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that, the majority of the men have served in
long
hot climates, - India principally - and have had their constitutions previously much injured, and, as I would respectfully point out to Your Excellency, that the men are
badly housed ; No stations have yet been built for them, and the houses, in
which they
are located, have either
not sufficient accommodation for
the comforts necessary for men so much exposed out of doors; And I would strongly urge upon Your Excellency, the necessity that exists for some immediate steps to remedy this evil; - by further delay the lives of many may be sacrificed; - and the comparative
exemption, of those
who had good
seasoned houses, from
severe sickness
of the civil community, last year,