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Str George'informs.us, that on the 24th day of September, 
1782, feventy-three children, viz. forty-fix girls and twenty-feven 
boys of different ages, from that of feven to fourteen years, were 
removed from Wimbleton to a large houfe near Golden-fquare. 
To this houfe thefe children came in good health, and continued 
fo' for a fortnight; when on the 8th of OGober, a girl aged 
thirteen years was fuddenly feized with an excruciating pain in 
the region of the ftomach and in the back, which was foon 
followed by violent head-ach, de/irium and convulfions. After a 
few days, another and another girl were attacked exaétly in the 
fame manner; and towards the end of the month this difeafe 
had fo prevailed as very much to alarm all thofe to whom the 
care of thefe children had been committed. On the 29th day of 
OGober Sir George’s advice was defired. He found mze of thefe 
poor girls and a female fervant in the fame room fuffering the 
various effects of a moft dreadful malady. Five were in the 
agonies of extreme pain, three were moft cruelly convud/ed, and 
the other two were raving in a fit of delirium. None of them 
had’ any degree of fever, aud their complaints were always moft 
fevere immediately after fleep. Thé other inhabitants of this 
houfe ‘had in general been healthy during the month of Otober, 
and it is remarkable that the difeafe above defcribed affeGed 
females only, and was confined to thofe who had flept together 
in a certain room on the fecond floor. The height of this room 
was a little more than cight feet, the length twenty, and the 
breadth fixteen: it contained ten beds, in which it was intended 
that eighteen girls, two in each bed, and a female fervant fingly 
fhould fleep ; but Sir George difcovered that this being a favourite 
room on account of its warmth, was generally crouded at night 
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