... requisitioned, bacon being fried on the stoves and oysters heated on a shovel. Several people fell ill. One emigrant developed small-pox, and a bride had the measles, getting better in tine to nurse her husband, who took the malady before the blockade was over ...

... aginst 1,525, a decline of 2S, being 429 below the average, and at the rate of 19-i per 1,003. There were 32 deaths frotm small-pox (a decline of 2, blt exceeding the average by 7), 31 from measles (a rise of 3), 14 from scarlet fever (a fall of 3), 14 ...