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"Twelve were put into different rooms, in one house, 

 and fourteen into another, out of the city. The con- 

 veniences of the two houses were much the same. 



** In one of them, little care was taken of the sick, 

 who were laid upon the same foul beds that they, con- 

 trary to orders, had brought 6n shore with them. 

 The consequence was, all the family caught the dis- 

 ease, and the landlord died. 



" In the other, my instructions were strictly observ- 

 ed : the sick had clean clothes, and clean bedding, 

 were well attended, and soon recovered, without the 

 least injury to any person that visited them." 



Doctor Hunter, who had charge of the military hos- 

 pitals, at Jamaica, from the year 1781 to 1783, de- 

 clares that the jail, hospital, or camp-fever, which he 

 acknowledges is highly contagious, in the cold sea- 

 sons of temperate climates, particularly in jails, work- 

 houses, and the confined habitations of the poor, was 

 never contagious at Jamaica, owing to the constant 

 circulation of fresh air. 



Dr. Carmichael Smyth observes, that fevers, of the 

 most contagious nature, are seldom communicated, 

 in clean and airy hospitals, to any but the nurses, or 

 those that assist in taking them out and into bed, not 

 even to those in the beds nearest them. 



Dr. Haygarth, of Bath, who has been many years 

 engaged in investigating the circumstances or causes 



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