Reference: C.O./133/7
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The Civil Officers of Government have, almost without exception, suffered to a considerable degree. Those whose occupation exposes them have chiefly been the sufferers from periodical returns after the first attack of Fever, which have proved most harassing to them in the exercise of their duties. There has, evidently, been a specific atmospherical influence creating this endemic during part of the year, and it has operated most in the most tranquil states of the atmosphere.
Mr. Harland, of the Seaman's Hospital, who has been a great sufferer from Fever, was absent for several weeks, during which time his duties devolved upon me. Not a single patient escaped an attack of Intermittent Fever, no matter what the disease was for which he was admitted. The servants, without exception, became affected; and I myself, after an evening visit, felt slight symptoms of ague.
That this tranquil state of atmosphere should be unsafe is little to be wondered at when we consider the more mechanical admixture of its constituents, and their readiness, while inactive, to enter into dangerous compounds with the adventitious gases evolved from decaying vegetable matter, which they may have a chemical affinity for.
Of the sporadic diseases prevalent, I have little to say. Many of them are sequelae of fever. Of Pulmonary affections, Haemoptysis, resulting from congestion of the Lungs, or subacute inflammation of the ...
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