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gastro-enteritic irritation; diath

Anan' Aval

was not

brought

: preceded by delirium, convulsions, or loss of -mental perception . This into Victoria from Stanley. She had suffered previously from repeated attacks of fever:

His early

· and he

cati tvas

wad

habits were

were very intemperate,

• feeble and emaciated. The second

of a strong healthy young man, of

temperate habits .. He was

brought from

Aberdeen

to the same station with the former case.

His disease, ran

le the same.

through precisely

stages, all of longer duration, and his death,

Avad

the same cxemption - from

· preceded bij the same

cerebral, discate. The third case was.

young

man

sofa.

active.

of the most robust frame, intellects, and temperate habits. His illness commenced, with marked, symptoms of -inflammation of the membranes of the bain, He had been casually exposed to the sun.

The active

symptoms

were

subdued, but

his disease

fever:

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assured the character of typhus

there were no periodical exacerbations,

and symptoms of stupor, intellectual dullness,

and low delirium preceded his death. His

disease was

of

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

fourthe last, except that, it terminated more po

rapidly.

The fifth death occurred at Aberdeen. This

casd resembled in its attack and progress, the two first

alluded to The

cates a

subject

of it had suffered repeatedly frome fever, had practised intemperance, and was

and attenuated.

in his.

body.

s feeble

The month of August presents

the fearful aggregate of nineteen deaths. Of

these there were nine-

Europeans

and four Chinamen. There

death

from

disease, and this

typhus fever, resembling

sia Indian's,

was on

only

one

ivas a cald

the third case

of

detailed in July. The subject of it was

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