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lefs fo) than the fummers and autumns were 

 in feveral others years, in which we had not 

 one inftance of any one being feized with 

 this fever ; which is contrary to what would 

 probably have happened, if particular confti- 

 tutions of the weather were produdive of it, 

 without infe 6tious miajmata. But that this is 

 really an infectious difeafe, feems plain, not 

 only from this, that almofl all the nurfes 

 catched it and diedof it; but like wife, as foon 

 as it appeared in town, it foon invaded new- 

 comers, thofe who never had the difeafe be- 

 fore, and country-people when they came to 

 town, while thofc who remained in the coun- 

 %y efcaped it, as likewife did thofe who had 

 formerly felt its iiire efFedls, tho' they walked 

 about the tov\Ti, vifited the iick in all the 

 different y?<^<^/^ of the difeafe, and attended the 

 funeral of thofe who died of it. And laftly, 

 whenever the difeafe appeared here, it was 

 eafily traced to fome perfon who had lately 

 arrived from fom.e of the JVefl-Jndi an Illands, 

 where it was epidemical. Altho' the infed:ion 

 was fpread with great celerity thro' the town, 

 yet if any from the country received it in 

 town, and fitkened on their return home, the 



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