On the 2d, symptoms of the plague were discovered on Dr Whyte, who the day before had inoculated himself, and he died on the 9th.
On the day following, a soldier of the 61st regiment, a servant of Colonel Barlow, Commandant of Rosetta, was sent into the pest-house there, now under the charge of Mr Grisdale and Mr Rice, with the plague.
On the 13th, two of six Arabs, out-servants at Rosetta, were attacked with the disease. Two men of the department marched the same road, and halted at the same stages, as the 7th regiment had done a week before.
On the 22d, two men of the 10th regiment, from a permanent guard on-board a vessel under quarantine, were sent into the pest-house at Alexandria. There occurred this month 72 cases of the plague in the Indian army, viz.
| 2 | Officers, Dr Whyte and Mr Price. | |
| 2 | Cases in the 10th regiment. | |
| 1 | 61st ditto. | |
| 22 | 1st Bombay regiment. | |
| 30 | 7th ditto. | |
| 4 | department of the com. of cattle. | |
| 1 | Pioneer-corps. | |
| 10 | Arab servants. | |
| Total | 72 |
Continued fever prevailed in the army. It was the synocha of Cullen. Intermittents were still on the decline, as were likewise dysentery and hepatitis. Pneumonia and rheumatism prevailed but in a small degree.
FEBRUARY.
This was a very cold and wet month; yet the number of sick continued to decrease, except in the 1st and 7th regiments, in which corps the plague continued to rage. Throughout the month, the sky was cloudy; we had high winds, on 19 days it rained, and on some of these as heavily as in the monsoons in India. The thermometer moved between 55° and 63°. On the 13th, for the first time, the following cases of the plague were dismissed cured from the quarantine-hospital; viz. two Sepoys, one drum-major, and one woman, from the 7th regiment, and two Arab servants of the pest-house. At this period, too, six were dismissed from the pest into the quarantine-hospital.