ed, and removed all the Sick from the Places near that
Ward; and ordered those that had catched the Fever to be put into
large airy Places; by which means the Infection spread no further,
and only one, out of six or seven who had got the Fever, died.

At the End of _June_, the Weather was very hot at _Bilifield_, and the
Fever began to shew itself by the Hospital being overcrowded, by a
greater Number of Sick being sent from the Army than we had proper
Places to put them in; but it was put a Stop to in a few Days, by the
Removal of the Hospital. Seventy Sick were left behind to the Care of
a Mate, most of them ill of the Fever, of whom twelve died.

In the Beginning of _August_, a few Men were taken ill of the same
Fever at _Munster_, in one of the Hospitals which was too much
crowded; but its further Progress was stopped by sending a Number of
recovered Men to Billet.

In _November_ and _December_ 1761, and _January_, _February_, and
_March_ 1762, we had several Men sent from Quarters in the Town of
_Bremen_ to the Hospital, sick of the Petechial Fever: they were
quartered on the Ground-floors of low damp Houses, and fresh Meat and
Vegetables so dear that they could not afford to buy them; but were
obliged to live mostly on salt Provisions. I was told likewise that
the spotted Fever was frequent among the lower Class of the
Inhabitants. Some few were seized with this Fever in the Hospital
itself; yet as the House was not crowded, and we had a Number of small
airy Wards, the Infection did not spread; and we had but one or two
who died of this Fever during the Winter, in the Hospital I attended.

In Summer 1762, we had only ten or eleven ill of this Fever in the
Hospital at _Natzungen_, and only one died.

When the Troops marched from their Cantonments, in _December_ 1762,
towards the Borders of _Holland_, the twentieth and twenty-fifth
Regiments of Foot left behind them, at _Osnabruck_, thirty sick; five
of whom had Symptoms of the Hospital Fever, though no Petechiae
appeared; three recovered, and two died suddenly, being lodged in
large open Wards (the only Places we had to put them in) with the
Windows all broke, in very cold frosty Weather.

In _January_ 1763, we had only three Patients in this Fever, with the
Petechiae upon them, who all recovered. After this we had none taken
ill of it at _Osnabruck_, while I remained there, which was till the
twenty-fifth of _March_.

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