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time., they

were

not.

of a

a serious nature.

1

dangerous tendoney. - Towards the end of

the month, cases

of

severe. Remittent and.

continued Fever, began to prevail., and

-

have occurred almost daily up. present time.

padly the

to

the

average stingth of the____

20th May

The

3 to 10.

Detachment- at Weet: Point, from to 15 July has been about. 250 men.. daily admissions have varied. from The total number of all diseases during the above period. has amounted to 108, of 294 in % prf have been cases

Th

of fever

which

casualties from fever have been 25; of other diseases 14: moit: of these hatter. Chronie cases of long standing

of officers with the

wvere

The number

Detachment

9:

all have been sich-

creept 2, and 2 have died. The appearance

of Hospital is far from

of the

men out.

farable.

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favorable; they are pale-, emaciated, and. wrak; relapses amongst

frequent,

them are very

convalesecnee tedious, and

recovery imperfect, and this

an

applies

lies in

manner to the recruits who

expecial. have last. joined..

·

3rdly with.

regard.

to the causes

of

this

sickness and mortality, the fommittee

arc

fevers,

of opinion. that the characters of these are those generally ascribed to malaria_; that the most apparent. sources of malaria, in this neighbourhood.

cach side of

are 2 ravines, one

on

the

Barracks; at the bottom of which, and close to the brooks, in their centre, there

is abundance. of rank grace and exuberant-

regetation; and in

and in which

are a

ravines, there

a few cultivated terraces, where- water may be recasionally stagnant. But these seem

insufficient.

to account

for