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recovered without any medicine. That her mother had not only nursed her, but 

 continued to lie with her; and that some time after the girl's recovery, the 

 mother began to complain, and soon after fell into a fever ; and that it was the 

 12th day since she was confined to her bed. This woman having the pete- 

 chiae, a stupor, with deafness, and a sunk pulse, there was no doubt of her 

 being likewise infected with the distemper, and probably by her daughter. As 

 she had been without any assistance, they advised her husband to send for Mr. 

 Breach, apothecary, in the Borough, who having served in the hospital of the 

 army during the war, was well acquainted with the nature of such fevers : and 

 having left directions with him, they did not return till after the crisis ; which 

 happened on the l6th or 17 th day from the time she was confined to her bed. 



Some time after this, Mr. Breach the apothecary informed them that he was 

 again employed in Thomas Wilmot's family ; for that Eliz. Marshall, his sister- 

 in-law, after nursing his wife, was taken ill of the same kind of fever, and desired 

 their assistance. This person they found in the same bed, and in the same con- 

 dition, in which they had seen her sister some time before ; and in the room with 

 her, in another bed, a son of Wilmot's, a boy of 9 years old, ill of the same dis- 

 temper. The former had been attacked on the 15 th of September, and the 

 latter the day before. The woman's fever ran out the ordinary length of 1 6 or 

 1 7 days, but the boy's came some days sooner to a crisis, and was all along of a 

 milder nature. She recovered very slowly, complaining of great weakness, 

 deafness, and a confusion in her head, the ordinary consequence of these malig- 

 nant fevers. 



One day, in his return from this house. Dr. P. called at St. Thomas's hospi- 

 tal, to inquire for one William Thomson, a lad of about 1 6 years of age, who, 

 as Wilmot then told him, was another of Mr. Stibbs's journeymen, and had 

 been taken ill by working in Newgate, since the 3 he had mentioned before. 

 This lad was recovered, but not yet dismissed. He said, that on finding him- 

 self growing ill, he had left his work, and kept at home for about a week, com- 

 plaining of a pain in the hinder part of his head, and his back, of a trembling of 

 his hands, and of restless nights ; that his feverish indisposition increasing, he 

 had been obliged to take to his bed, where he lay about 8 days before he was 

 sent to the hospital. The apothecary added, that he had continued under their 

 care about the same number of days before the turn of his fever ; that his pulse 

 had been extremely low all that time, and that they believed him to be in the 

 utmost danger. He added, that the wife of Michael Sewel (the second patient 

 they had received, of those who had been employed in Newgate) some days after 

 her husband's admission, came to seek advice for herself, and that her com- 

 plaints had been the same with Wilmot's at the time they saw him : he added 

 that he had given her some medicines, but had heard nothing of her since. 



