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and
- prevalent during the last year, unusually difficult to cure. Out of 48
cases, acute and chronic, there
Aver.c
17 deaths,
and to these must be added five other fatal
cales
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other
of dysentery supervening diseases; to that the deaths from dysentery
- alone have exceeded one half the whole
number
of deaths
dawng
the year
h
the 15th Regiment, the suumber of deaths. fromd this disease was 10, but the large number of 94 deattis is stated to have
arilen
may
from
intermittent = fever
, and it
f
be reasonably suspected that som with dysentery. complicated. Rheumation stands next in the
these were
discuses. Although record of the most frequent discuses. less fatal, it is
it is hardly less intractable than In most of the cases which
dysentery
have
Come
under
trace their ea
my
early origin
observation, I could
to venereal taint.
The vicissitudes of this climate favour
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the development and progress of the dicendo, and it is rarely eradicated without the influence of a decided and prolonged change of climate. In the squadron stationed in this harbour it has proved a distressing
were 14.35′′
and unmanageable disease. In the chamanis Hospital those of rheumation per cost of all the case's treated.
The foregoing record does not indicate accurately the number of venereal cases. Many patients suffering from other diseases, and admitted into hospital
were also suffering
account of the latter,
CA
from venereal disease . It presents itself
on this place in a form of peculiar virulend
rarely
and malignity, such as I believe is witnessed. It is difficult to acement for its
severity; it may
unirmmon
be that it.
accumulates intensity from it's prolonged and undisturbed existence in the unhappy
creatures who are the sources
it. All
of it.