CO129-017 - Sir John Davis - 1846 [7-12] — Page 101

foul swamp that lay at the foot of them, and was used, for irrigating the fields and supplied. by the

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sewere of

old town of Edinburgh;

the

clearly proved

in

the hottest part of

38

thee

day!

distance perhaps of three mile

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coluce dve

that the

proves which I lay

each

evay way. -

situation

of

these houses

the

and at

very point

medical

that time it was

by

the evidence of our

of

Gentleman that the inhabitants

the district in which he

losided were, when he first.

resided in it, liable to intermitting

Levers, and this caused

by

the...

Swampe in the neighbourhood . But to return from this.

digression the gentlemen Breiding in the Six Cottages had

Ertlages had just

arrived

after a long

af

from Englands,

long vegage

and

habit of walking

of Pown

***Ore

toere

+

"

in the

in and out

than

daily

the greatest stress

of

of

the

Cas ess

the Endemic diseases, viz:

Swampe and decayed Vegetable

matter which

de

find surrounding these houses, while we find very few Puddy-fields in the neighbourhood. Allusion is made to "the fearful mortality amounting

to 25 per anting to 25 the 98th

quartered this

and

at, when

Cent in

Regiment which.

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the

place","

is not to be wondered.

ie

rae

whole island

much in

time much

recollect that the

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the

at that

Condition

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