When he arrived, the following scene presented itself:--In the window lay the loaf, where it had been deposited four days previously; in one corner of the cabin, on a little straw, without covering of any kind, lay the wretched mother, actually dying, and her infant dead by her side, for the want of that sustenance which she had not to give; on the floor lay the children, to all appearance dying also of cold and hunger.

At first they refused to take anything, and he had to pour a little liquid down their throats--with the cautious administration of food they gradually recovered.

The woman expired before the visitor quitted the house.'-- Letter from Dr.Mucarthney, Monivae.
"'A man, his wife, and two children lay together in a fever.

The man died in the night; his wife, nearly convalescent, was so terrified with his corpse in the same bed with her, that she relapsed, and died in two days after; the children recovered from fever, but the eldest lost his reason by the fright.

Many other scenes have I witnessed, which would be too tedious to relate.'-- Barker & Oheyne's Report.
"I know not of any visitation so much to be dreaded as epidemic fever; it is worse than the plague, for it lasts throughout all seasons.