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Interrogatory

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can only say

that for some time past-

I have considered it a question of the utmost-

importance in view of the greatly increased

intercourse with warm climates where the disease

exists. It is a question for the Government to keefs up a most sifting examination into on account of its liability to spread among the troops or among individuals at home - The Chinese sometimes the

removal to a Cold Climate such as that

but then tell

of

Lekin

any paramount

me without

advantage and they seem to

and they seem to give up its treatment

as I have seen a man

by the disease

finding he give himself up to

was

affected

despair.

It is

only in witnessing a full grown-

told that it is the disease, and seeing the

man

when