January 422 500 31 680 170 February 457 544 57 596 118 March 444 740 233 781 85 April 476 719 227 653 55 May 584 752 184 443 28 June 396 518 85 434 19 July 417 460 29 541 14 August 338 551 20 454 5 September 370 467 22 577 16 October 425 621 34 430 13 November 356 555 105 412 11 December 571 585 157 565 11 ————— ————— ————— ————— ——— Total 5,256 7,012 1,184 6,566 545 Typhus fever appeared throughout the entire province of Brandenburg. Maier[134] gives us some information regarding the city of Brandenburg, where ‘infectious nerve-fever’ disappeared in the latter part of May 1813, and where, after the battle of Leipzig, it again broke out, but did not become very widespread. On October 27 prisoners from Baden and Hesse were quartered there; they remained until October 31 and then went on to Ruppin. Among them were some convalescents from a military lazaret in Saxony, who infected the occupants of all the houses in which the prisoners were quartered. Between November 5 and December 6 there were 38 ‘nerve-fever’ patients in the Altstadt and 7 in the Neustadt, a small number of whom died. Typhus fever raged very furiously in Jüterbog after the battle of Dennewitz, carrying away entire families. After his defeat in Russia, Napoleon had quickly returned to France, and there, by means of new conscriptions, had in a short time assembled an army of very young men, who had never done military service and were therefore not accustomed to the hardships of war and, in particular, were much more susceptible to infectious diseases than the troops that had served under him before. In April, when the army of the Allies had arrived at the Elbe, Napoleon with his newly-gathered army left the Rhine and marched to Saxony, which from then until autumn was the main scene of the war. Since the Russian army was still infected with typhus fever, contracted in the winter campaign, and since, furthermore, isolated cases of the disease were still occurring among the remnants of the French troops that had returned from Russia, the inevitable result was that Saxony was not only completely impoverished by the protracted war, but was also terribly afflicted by war pestilences.