In a former letter T mentioned a few cases of cholera, but also [have to report now a great increase of sickness of many kinds. "At least the natives give various names to the epidemic now prevalent and carrying off many people.
A Novel Remedy, Placards are stuck on the walls of the city and on houses advising those who are attacked by the sickness to cher copper cash. Thad it on the authority of a foreigner whose servant was sick tha he actually saw bits of copper this man had chewed. And moreover his servant recovere]. Wha etticacy there can be in chewing dirty copper cash is beyond our finding out, Tne natives believe in it, ant perhaps their faith may aid in a cure being effected. Phe magistrate sent an order through the streets by a crier that the p-ople were t" clean the streets and drains. A sud ten impulse effects a few days cleanliness and then dirt prevails as befure.
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