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There were more deaths than what were reported officially. During the violence and near the commencement of the disease, many sickened and died without being seen by a medical man, or coming under the cognizance of the Board of Health. It has been ascertaincdascertained [sic], from the number of coffins that were made, and the grave-diggers accounts, that the real deaths exceeded the reported ones upwards of 100; so the deaths on both sides of the river, will be about 650 at the utmost.

"Our publicans were only warned to shut at night, when they ought to have been closed altogether nine months sooner; at least an interdict ought to have been laid on the sale of spirits, which would have been a grand physical and moral preventative of Cholera. If the same charge of generating of