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" and the suddenness of its occurrence ; for, says the 

 " reporter, — 



" ' Ahuost entire families were attacked, in some 

 " instances the patient seems to be ahnost instantly 

 " overwhelmed with the intensity of the poison. . . On 

 "the 13th of January, 1868, 208 j^ersows had already Up to 13 Jan, 

 " been attacked by the prevailing malady, and several 208 persons 

 *' fresh cases were daily occurring. I do not include in ^ttacked and 



" my number cases of so-called diarrhoea (possibly all ^^^ -^^^^^ 



. . . ^ , ^ occurring' ex~ 



" mild cases of typhoid fever) Avhich were only accidentally elusive of 



" heard of, and which probably were numerous, though milder cases 



" not of sufficient severity to call for medical relief." of so-called 



" The first case of fever occurred on the 13th of babT^numer- 

 " November ; the next not until December 4th, when qus. 

 " the epidemic seemed rapidly to develop, for the report 

 " says — 



'* ' During the following ten days 30 fresh cases were 

 " seen; but on the 15th, 16tli, and 17th by far the largest 

 " number were attacked, 22, 19, and 12 cases occurring 

 " respectively on those days. After this, though the 

 " daily number of fresh cases was by no means so large, 

 *' still a steady increase took place. . . As yet, however, 

 " only one death had taken place — namely, on Dec. 14th; 

 " but when the third week of the epidemic had arrived, a 

 '* steadily and gradually increasing death-rate commenced, 

 " and on the 30th twelve of the patients had died, and 

 " others were dying. Terling teas now completely panic- Terling 

 " stricken. . . No class of persons was exempt ; the ^f^'-^^f' 

 " rich, the well fed and clad, were attacked in common ^q^^ -q^^ 

 " with the poor and destitute. At Lord Rayleigh's 

 " residence 10 cases had occurred, the vicar's house was 

 " a seat of the epidemic, and from one end of the village 

 " to the other the disease seemed to be almost evenly 

 " spread. Age and sex seemed to present remarkable 

 " peculiarities : thus, out of 145 cases whose ages I was 

 " enabled to obtain, 79 were children under fourteen years 

 " of age, and of the remaining 66, 50 were females, 

 " leaving 16 males whose ages exceeded fourteen years, 

 " out of the entire number attacked." men rndbo^"! 



" And this peculiarity as to the age and sex of the ^^.g,. ]4 ,,p.^^.g 

 " persons attacked the reporter expresses his belief is to of age being 

 " be ascribed to the fact — attacked at- 



'■ ' That the men, and the majority of the boys over their princi- 

 "^ fourteen years of age, spend the greater portion of their pallydrinking 

 " time away from home, labouring in the fi.elds, and that beer. 



