... used to prevent the progress of the epidemic, with the exception of taking down the unwholesome dwellings. Cleaning, white-washing, and spreading lime, are carried on in the neighbouring parishes on large scale, for fear of the cholera. Scarlet fever also ...

... surprising that they should have been defeated at all,eTeu if opposed forces overwhelming point of numbers. It should not be forgotten that by far the greatest number of the English soldiers had never been xtnder fire before, sod though the loss was great it ...

... good the defences of the Alma for three weeks against 100,000 men. They were carried by the allies, of whom not half that number were actually engaged, in three hours. It is confidently reported that Menchikoff was suffering severely from illness during ...