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and the 8th of July, none fatal; the last being the captain whose attack 

 was not BO severe but was followed by a long and tedious convalescence. One 

 at least of the other men, the mate, was certainly susceptible to the disease, 

 and yet no other case occurred during the voyage. The vessel arrived at 

 St. Nazaire on the 35th of July and was brought to the wharf where she 

 lay along side with another vessel, the An quijm, then ready to sail for 

 Cayenne (French Guayana). The captain left the ship and the mate 

 remained to attend to the unloading, all the rest of the crew left the vessel 

 as soon as she reached St. Nazaire, none of them, as far as could be 

 afterwards acertained, having been infected. The unloading was therefore 

 accomplished exclusively by new men. under the mate's direction. The hold 

 was thrown open on the 27th of July and the unloading terminated on 

 the 3rd of August. The vessel having been declared infected was removed 

 to the center of the dock on the 5th and towed out into the open bay on 

 the 7th to be thoroughly disinfected. From the moment that the hold was 

 thrown open, all susceptible persons who entered it became infected with 

 fatal yellow fever. On the 27th and 28th the cooper, in charge of the 

 inspecting and repairing of the sugar boxes before unloading, the mate, five 

 men belonging to another vessel who went into the hold from curiosity, 

 picking out sugar canes that were stowed between the boxes, were all 

 attacked a few days later, with fatal yellow fever. All together between the 

 27th of July and the 5th of August, 19 persons were infected at St. 

 Nazaire by visiting the hold or the deck of the Anne Marie. Five others 

 appear to have caught the infection on the wharf or on the deck of other 

 vessels in close proximity to the infected ship. Two persons in the town 

 received the infection apparently through bundles that were taken to them 

 directly from the Annt Marie. A remarkable case was that of Dr. Chaillon, 

 who never came to St. Nazaire at all but, on the 5th, 6th, 7th. 10th and 

 11th of August, had visited at their homes in villages, two or three miles 

 distant from the port, four of the workmen employed in the unloading of 

 the Annt Mum. He was taken ill with yellow fever on the 13th and died 

 on the 17th This was the only instance of a second hand infection at St. 

 Nazaire or apon the French coast during thai epidemic. 



.More remarkable still was the case of Bruban, a stone cutter who never 

 came to the side of the dock where the infected vessel was lying nor 

 communicated directly or indirectly with it. but who happened to be 

 employed in repairs near the dock gates while the Anm Marii was 

 unloading, at a spot distant 225 metres from that ship. He was taken sick 

 on the 4th of August and died of yellow fever on the 10th. 



Finally the Arequipa which had been lying side by side to the Anm 

 Mum since the 26th of duly, sailed on the 1st of August for Cayenne. Her- 

 niate, having apparently caught the infection from the Anm Marie, was 



taken sick at sea on the 5th and died on the 12th. A new focus of infection 

 seems then to have developed on board of the Arequipa, a series of 



