From the 28th of _September_ to the 3d of _October_, nothing but Action and Labour Night and Day. At the _Mall_ no Time is lost to repair the Damage done by the Wind, and to provide for such an Hospital the infinite Number of Things necessary in it; in fitting up Apartments and Laboratories for the Physicians, Apothecaries, Surgeons, Officers, and Servants of the Hospital, in the Convent of the Reformed _Augustines_, which is contiguous to it, and in the neighbouring _Bastides_; and in digging near it large and deep Pits: At _la Charité_, those already opened in the Garden of the _Observantines_ are just behind it; but for that Hospital, it was found to require more Trouble than the other to provide it with all Necessaries. The Pains taken to disinfect the _Hôtel-Dieu_, remove from thence the infected Patients, and bring into it all the Poor from _la Charité_, are inconceivable: M. _de Langeron_ is obliged to be on Horseback from Morning to Night, moving from Place to Place; the Sheriffs give themselves no Respite, but shorten the common Time of Meals, that they may not lose a Moment. Every thing is hard to be got, even Straw to stuff the Mattresses, which no body will bring in from the Territory, without being compelled to it by Force. Officers and Servants must be sought for all these Hospitals; especially a great Number of Surgeons must be had, both Masters and Men; they cannot be drawn hither from other Provinces, but by exorbitant Rewards; Advertisements are affixed every where, promising to all Surgeons who will come, _viz._ to Master-Surgeons of Principal Towns 2000 Livres a Month; to the licensed Surgeons of those Towns, and the Master-Surgeons of small Places 1000 Livres a Month; and to their Apprentices, or Journeymen, 300 Livres a Month, with the Freedom of the Company of Surgeons of _Marseilles_; besides Lodging and Diet all the time they are employed. The 3d of _October_, Part of the Troops which M. _de Langeron_ expected for the Service of the City, and to execute his Orders, arrive; _viz._ Three Companies of the Regiment of _Flandres_, whom he causes to encamp at the _Chartreuse_ without the Walls. The 4th, the two new Hospitals at the _Mall_ and _la Charité_, are, at length, in a Condition to receive the Sick; and immediately they creep thither from all Quarters. A Number of Gally-Slaves is employed to fetch those who cannot help themselves, and are lying in the publick Places and Streets, and in the Houses.