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5. The people in the neighbourhood of the Genes- 

 see-River are very sickly this season. Their disor- 

 der is called the Genessee- Fever, and has proved fa- 

 tal to many. Its malignancy is, perhaps, owing to 

 the continual rains we have had here, for more than 

 two months, during which time scarcely a day was 

 passed without rain. 



Mr. James W. Stevens. 



September \1th y 1801. 



6. In 1794, Dr. Appleton, of Boston, informed 

 me, that in the summer of 1778, a genuine Typhus 

 carcerum, or Goal-Fever, was generated in the goal, 

 among the prisoners, in Nova-Scotia. A cartel being 

 to be made between these prisoners and the British, 

 numbers of the former, labouring under typhus, were 

 accordingly sent into Narraganset-Bay. Here they 

 were landed upon Hospital- Island, where the Poctor 

 eaw many of them. 



The number of sick and dead was very great. It 

 was observed (he said), that almost every person who 

 landed upon the island, whether he had or had not 

 immediate contact with the persons labouring under 

 the disease, or with their clothes, was seized with the 

 disorder. 



Numbers of the nurses, physicians, and others, re- 

 turned to Boston, with the disease upon them : but 



