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Medical men di in opinion

differed

aø

to the exact type of the disease, but one

fact

could not be disputed,

that was

in many

aud

the rapidity with which,

cases,

the diecase proved

fatal . The state of the Gaol, in

which there were several

fatal

cases,

gave rise to considerable anxiety.

for

-

some time; but, fortunately, the

disease even disappeared from

that

establishment, thanks to the prompt

precautionary

malcourto

which

were taken by the Gaol Authorities.

5

d to this

I have referred

simply

simply

to show that

every

thing

points to the necessity of carrying

out

watchfully and steadily the ~ provisions of the Health Ordinance, to prevent this Colony from

reverting

which

to the insanitary conditions

gave

it such an unenviable

notoriety in its earliest days. What

with

an

enormously increased and

increasing population, and with the

saturation

of the subsoil canced by imperfect drainage of the last 46 years,

any

there is danger that, at - noment, the city and the

native