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gastro-enteritic irritation; death was not : preceded by delirium, convulsions, or loss of -mental perception. This

dnan' ivas

brought

into Victoria from Stanley . He had suffered - previously from repeated attacks of fever -

His carlys habits were

Mis early

and. he

cadi ivai

wed

very

intemperate,

juble and emaciated. The record

of a strong healthy young man,

temperate habits. He.

KVAL

2, of brought from Merden

ca tè.

to the same station with the former

His discasio ran

through precisely the same

-stages, all of longer duration, and his death,

toas

• preceded by

the

same exemption from

cerebral disease. The third case was

young

man

sofa.

of the most robust frame, active- intelicet», and temperate, habits. His illness commenced, with, marked, symptoms of inflammation of the membranes of the brain He had been casually exposed.

casually exposed to the

The active symptoms were

dun.

subdued, but

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his disease assumed

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assumed the character of typhus fever : there were no periodical exacerbations, and symptoms of stupor, intellectual dullness, and low delirium preceded his death. His

distate was

fourthe

of

"seven days duration. The case was in all respects similar to the

last, except that it terminated more

rapidly.

The fifth death occurred at Aberdeen. This casd resembled, in its attack and progress, the two first

subject of it had suffered repeatedly from fever,

caser alluded to.

The

had practised__ intemperance, and was and attenuated in his body.

1 feeble

The mouth of August presents

the fearful aggregate of minetion deaths. Of these there were nine- Europeans,

and

four Chinamen. There death- from disease, and this

wad

six. Indian's,

only

was a case

of

typhus fever, resembling the third card detailed in July. The subject of it was