(Here follows in the original, the letter of approbation from the Committee of Health, which though it is highly flattering to the author, is unimportant to the reader, and is therefore omitted by the Translator.) [81] In the beginning of the year 1772, I had the remainder of the children who had been received into the quarantine-house, admitted, a few at a time, into the Great Hospital. Their number, including orphans, whose parents had been carried off by the plague, and new-born infants, amounted to one hundred and fifty. Transcriber's Notes page viii & ix: the four items listed have been expanded from the original compact paragraph. page 29: Pogaretsky ==> Pogaretzky page 44: accompained ==> accompanied page 75: petechia ==> petechiæ footnote 5: Samoïlowoitz ==> Samoïlowitz footnote 27: Pogaretsky ==> Pogaretzky footnote 33: Russel ==> Russell footnote 36: Russel ==> Russell footnote 59: sly ==> fly footnote 59: hurful ==> hurtful End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of An account of the plague which raged at Moscow, in 1771, by Charles de Mertens