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Rh the persons with whom he lodged.—Immediately after the removal of this patient, the room in which he had been confined was duly washed and ventilated; and means were taken to dis-infect the clothes and bedding, by a free exposure of them in the open air.

"Margaret Billington, wife of a private in the York Fencibles, was removed, on the tenth day of her disease, from a small room, at No. 8, Pump-street, which has been for some time the nightly abode of four grown persons, and three children. On her removal, the bedding was exposed to the air, in an open space, for several hours; the floor of the apartment was scoured; the walls were white-washed; fumigations with nitrous gas were employed, according to the practice of his Majesty's Naval Hospitals; and a reward was promised to the heads of the family, provided their endeavours to extinguish contagion were attended with success,