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From What I Learned on the Spot, the disease appeared about the middle of November last; as to its probable mode of introduction into the settlement, I could gain no information Judging from the symptoms and from the common obser = vation of the neighborhood on that none died to whom the await ordinary [purjative?] was administered , I should infer the disease was not severe.
Whatever may have been the origin, the disease appears to be non Contagious, its affects are without regard to local circumstances, and having once interred a family it seldom leaves it without affecting all its members; in one family of ten individuals it has continued for the last eight weeks. - The Acute stage varies from 5 to 12 days and that of convalescuin from 7 days to [fortiy?]
There was nose of relapses. -
The number of families visited was fourteen, consisting of sixty eight souls; of the number, Twenty two had had the disease and [illegible] restored to their usual health & Employments, Six were corvaliscent, but capable of little exertions, Thirteen were in the acute stage of the disease and thus fatality had occurred; the remainder was in resigned expectation of their suffering.-
For the reasons stated in a former part of this report I could not devote any time to ascertaining whether the disease was on the increase or decline, but from the progrys it had already made, the probability of its being contagious and from the intercourse between the inhabitants being as free as usual, the futher advance of the disease may decided highly probable. -
The houses of all whom I visited, were, with two exceptions warm, and for the present supplied with fuel; however in most instances they have been indebted to the Courity of their neighbors for there temporary supply.-
Their beds were of dry hay, and though corse enjoyed the comfort of a blankets, yet others were destitute of that cover = ing and lay in their own clothes, half covered with pieces of carpet or rug, and some again did not enjoy any of these suitability. -