Spelling variations have been retained in this ebook to match the original text, e.g., quarrantines & quarantines, shew & show, Farrell & Farrel, control & controul, employe & employe, coridors, land wind & land-wind, reccommended & recommended, versts & wersts, clothing & cloathing, apalling & appalling, prima facie & prima facie, alledged, and par metier & par metier. Placement of footnote markers has been regularized to be located outside of neighboring punctuation. The following typographical corrections have been made to this text: PART I Foot 1: Removed stray comma (As medical men in this Country employ) Page 6: Changed possesss to possess (still do not possess) Page 13: Removed superfluous quote marks (Petersburg;--this gentleman) Page 19: Removed duplicate word 'of' (has become a magazine of) Page 19: Changed . to , (the cause of cholera,) Page 21: Changed , to . (&c., in the office) Page 22: Changed Mauritus to Mauritius (at the Mauritius before) Page 22: Added . to Dr (Dr. Hawkins admits) Page 24: Changed . to , (Martin M'Neal[6],) Page 24: Changed knowlege to knowledge (any knowledge himself) Page 26: Changed circustances to circumstances (two circumstances) Page 28: Removed duplicate word 'a' (at least for a time) Page 32: Changed intercouse to intercourse (or great intercourse) Page 33: Added . to Dr (and Dr. Hawkins) Foot 11: Changed importan to important (in the important) Page 39: Moved misplaced comma (at Barcelonetta, the) Page 45: Changed teminated to terminated (terminated favourably) Page 46: Removed stray hyphen (he persists in giving) Page 50: Moved misplaced period (this calamity (the cholera).) Page 51: Changed caon to 'ca on' (toute ca on trouve) Page 53: Deleted superfluous end-quotes (took place.) Page 53: Changed confied to confined (been confined to her bed) Page 53: Changed macron to aigu accent (_employes_ attached) Page 53: Changed authorties to authorities (authorities wished) Page 54: Changed dimished to diminished (diminished all at once) Page 54: Changed a to a (tout a coup) Page 54: Changed entasses to entasses (crowded [_entasses_]) Page 54: Changed Franec to France (state like France) Page 56: Added missing end-quotes (to the Burraumposter.") Page 57: Changed em-dash to hyphen (Leicester-square) PART II Page 11: Changed typhoi'd to typhoid (the typhoid principle) Page 15: Changed affluuent to affluent (houses of the affluent) Page 17: Changed 'in' to 'In' (In my last letter) Page 21: Changed absorded to absorbed (absorbed into the soil) Page 22: Changed 'in' to 'it' (would certainly have kept it) Page 24: Changed procees to process (drying process) Page 26: Changed saered to sacred (the most sacred duty) Page 30: Added missing ending punctuation (following morning.) Page 31: Removed duplicate word always (always afford)