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Report of Lewis Johnston, M.D. of Bridgetown, relative to the small pox among the Mi'kmaq on the Bay Shore in Annapolis County.
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The report of Lewis Johnston MD relative to the small pox on the Bay Shore in the county of Annapolis among the Indians. Information having been [?layed] with Richard James Esq J.P. I under his directions visited the aforesaid district. and report as follows -
I found [[illegible - crossed out] two Indians labouring under smallpox. One of them had been ill six days and exhibited all the symptoms of confluent small pox. The other was attacked at a more recent period
Date: 1849
Retrieval no.: Commissioner of Public Records — Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 431 number 50
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