time, they were not of a serious nature.
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dangerous tendency. - Towards the end of the month, cases of severe Remittent and continued Fever, began to prevail, and have occurred almost daily up to the present time.
Hardly the average strength of the____
20th May
The 3 to 10 Detachment at West Point, from to 15 July has been about 250 men. Daily admissions have varied. The total number of all diseases during the above period has amounted to 108, of which 294 in % have been cases of fever.
The casualties from fever have been 25; of other diseases 14: most of these latter were chronic cases of long standing amongst officers with the Detachment.
9: all have been sick except 2, and 2 have died.
The appearance of the men out of Hospital is far from favorable; they are pale, emaciated, and weak; relapses amongst them are very frequent, convalescence tedious, and recovery imperfect, and this applies in an especial manner to the recruits who have last joined.
3rdly with regard to the causes of this sickness and mortality, the Committee are of opinion that the characters of these fevers are those generally ascribed to malaria; that the most apparent sources of malaria, in this neighbourhood, are 2 ravines, one on each side of the Barracks; at the bottom of which, and close to the brooks, in their centre, there is abundance of rank grass and exuberant vegetation; and in which ravines, there are a few cultivated terraces, where water may be occasionally stagnant. But these seem insufficient to account for