Observations on the diseases which appeared in the Army on St. Lucia, in 1778 and 1779. To which are prefixed, remarks calculated to assist in ascertaining the causes, and in explaining the treatment, of those diseases. With an appendix, containing a short address to military gentleman on the means of preserving health in the West-Indies / [John Rollo].

  • Rollo, John, -1809
Date:
1781
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Credit: Observations on the diseases which appeared in the Army on St. Lucia, in 1778 and 1779. To which are prefixed, remarks calculated to assist in ascertaining the causes, and in explaining the treatment, of those diseases. With an appendix, containing a short address to military gentleman on the means of preserving health in the West-Indies / [John Rollo]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the high hills to windward of the town, .inthe months of February and March, “we had many fick : feveral officers of the army died in fix or feven days illnefs, and numbers of men, The fifth régi- ment, which changed’ ground again to the Vigie, its original fituation, and our detachment of artillery, continued fickly 3 but in the end, the feverity of “their difeafes abated, while thofe of other parts encreafed. On the fouth fide of Carenage-Bay, two- thirds of our men were fick, and here we loft the greateft number, The Rock Battery of feven men had only three fick, and thefe were flight cafes, ~ Upon the whole, the worft cafes were from the fouth fide, and the Low Bat- tery on the north fide of Cul de Sac, Carenage Town, the Ridge of Hills to windward of it, and the fouth fide of Fea the