On the 7th, Mr Dyson, who on the 4th went to Aboukir to relieve Mr O’Farrel, discovered bubo and symptoms of the plague in himself.
On the 10th, a serjeant of the 61st, who had had the disease last month, and who, after recovering, officiated as in-steward of the pest-house in Alexandria, was again attacked with the plague.
On the 11th Mr Angle died, being the fourteenth day of his disease. He, three weeks before, went to assist Dr Buchan in the lazaretto.
On the 14th, symptoms of the disease were first discovered on Mr Moss in the lazaretto. Of the Jew family sent to the observation-ground on the 6th, which amounted to seven persons, two were sent to-day to the pest-side.
On the 15th the husband of the jewess died in an observation-tent, having glandular swellings, which were not discovered till after his death. He did not appear to be ill. Mr Cloran was accustomed, once a day or oftener, to examine those under observation, but nothing was discovered to ail this man.
On the 16th, he discovered some symptoms of the disease in another of the same family, and sent him in to Dr Buchan.
On the 17th, a deserter from the 61st regiment, sent to the regimental guard-house, where he was discovered to have the plague, was sent to the lazaretto, and the guard, amounting to nineteen persons, into the observation-ground of the lazaretto. This man confessed that he had slept one night near the pest-house at Aboukir. On the 19th Mr Moss died. On the 24th the plague was discovered in another Jew family. The plague of the Indian army, during the month, was as follows, viz.
| Assistant-surgeons | 4 |
| 61st regiment | 4 |
| 80th ditto | 1 |
| 7th Bombay ditto | 5 |
| Departments | 12 |
| Total | 26 |
On the whole, it was a pleasing circumstance to see so little of the disease among the native corps, as, when it did occur, it proved so much more fatal to them. From my correspondence with different gentlemen in the pest-houses it appears, that, during the month, bubo was not so constant a symptom, and that carbuncles were now frequent.
At first this symptom was seen in no case. Excepting the 61st regiment, the army was in a very healthy state. Fever was equally mild as in last month. Opthalmia began again to appear. In the last return there were sixty cases, fifty of which were Europeans. Of seventy-one men with ulcers, sixty were Europeans. The total sick of the army, at the end of the month, did not exceed three hundred; and in this are included every ulcer, accident, or less serious complaint, which prevents a soldier from appearing on parade.