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2 lost all his patients, and went back saying he never saw anything equal to Bangor Cholera for malignity. There were a number of very severe cases of Dysentery and Cholera Months before the Cholera broke out, which the doctors said were a near Cholera as the climate would admit, but they have found the climate will admit of it as malignant here as anywhere else. I suppose you have seen some accounts of it from week to week in the papers. There have been some 175 deaths since it broke out, four weeks ago last Thursday This is a great number considering that from 1/3 to 1/2 the inhabitants have left the city. People have actually suffered for help. There have been very earnest appeals in the papers for assistance. In some cases only one nurse could ? when so much is necessary to be done. Its victims have been mostly the Irish and intemperate, though some others have been taken. Mrs. Ingraham, Mrs. Nathaniel Pierce (daughter of Francis Shepherd) Mrs. Dr. Holman, Col. Valentine etc. There have been no cases reported for a day or two. I have this day despatched a letter ten pages to Ann two of which Samuel wrote. Don't you feel afraid she will be sick? I don't know what to say to you for talking to me so much about writing letters! Why in the world don't you lecture Almeda more? I know I am not worse than she. But then I know I deserve it, and will try to do better in future. I've been to Milo this summer three times, once staid a month, once a fortnight, and once with you, which has seemed to break up the whole summer, and, you may laugh, but I have really had a great