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of 4132 cases there were 1544 deaths. (34.94 per cent.)

When the pestilence first broke out in the community, your Supt. Mr. Thos. A. Horde, with commendable promptitude and energy, persuaded a sufficient force of the Freedmen to volunteer to erect a building for a Pest House out of the primitive forest. This I visited, and though not a structure of great pretentious, it answers a temporary purpose, being built of logs and coursed and lined with "clapboards". It is conveniently located about equi-distant from Decherd and Winchester to accommodate both places. Great credit is due your Supt. at Decherd for his activity in the crisis, and mainly to it is to be ascribed the cessation of new cases. There have never been over 17 cases in the Pest House at any one time, and, at the period of my visit, there were but 12; at least 8 of whom were convalescent and ready to be discharged. 

On the 4th ult. the County Court selected Squire Beit - a worthy citizen of the vicinity - to superintend the Pest House, clothing him

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