Varna suffered very severely; according to Petersenn, the first cases occurred there in May 1829, in the infantry regiment Witepsk. The patients were housed in tents on the sea-shore outside the city, and since the number of people who contracted the disease continued to increase, all the patients in the hospitals were soon taken there. The city was finally completely evacuated and closed up, after the inhabitants had been assigned to definite places to live in the open fields and in a near-by forest. The plague reached its climax in the latter part of June. ‘There was not a hospital,’ says Petersenn,[189] ‘not a quarter of the city, not a division of troops, not a family, not a single place, which had escaped infection, and everywhere one came across victims of the pestilence, some dying and some dead; for it spared neither sex nor age nor class.’ And in another place the same physician says:[190] ‘If the inside of the plague-camp afforded a terrible sight, where sick men tossed about, gasping in the burning summer heat, between the dead and dying, the conditions outside of the plague-camp were no more pleasant to witness; for along the roads from the city to the hospitals, on fields and meadows, behind every shrub, in every ditch, dead and dying men were stretched out everywhere.’ And Seidlitz, who visited Varna when the plague was at its height, asserts that the corpses were piled up ‘like logs’ and carried away ‘by cartloads’. According to Petersenn,[191] the number of patients that died in the plague-hospital at Varna was: From June 5 to 30 2,238 From July 1 to 31 1,484 From August 1 to 26 210 At the end of August there were only a few plague-patients in Varna. Of forty-one physicians, twenty-eight contracted the disease and twenty succumbed to it. Conditions were as bad in many other places as they were in Varna; Slobodzie, Kustendji, and Mangalia were likewise devastated. In Brailow the first cases of plague occurred in March; in April 132 persons succumbed to the disease, in May 150, in June 774, and in July the pestilence abated.[192]