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I am informed by the Bishop of Nova Scotia amounting to 500. The disease is contagious in its nature and has been more or less prevalent in this Town in a mild form, for some time past. It may be proper to observe that the disease has not arisen amongst the Black people in consequence of any privations they may have suffered but has found its way amongst them as it has done into Halifax. And altho misery and want to a certain degree does exist amongst these poor people, still I am informed by Dr. Carter Staff Asst. Surgeon that most of them have Blankets and that in a few instances only is there a total want of clothing and that for Food all of them have potatoes, that their Cabins are well made and that he saw sufficient fires in them all. What they appear most immediately to stand in