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Which brings a greater burden on the
Health Committee, who appear to be active
in doing all that is proper to be done in
their capacity.

21.7 The restrictions are kept on by the Health
committee agreeably to their first regulations
notwithstanding there are a few who oppose
all measures adopted by the health Committee.
As the voice of the people are in favour
of the measures taken by the health
Committee, there is no doubt but they will
continue the restrictions inviolate until the
sickness abates in this country, which at present
appears to the contrary, although it is nearly or
quite confined to the City of N. York, where it
increasingly rages but mostly among the lower
class of people. By the latest acct. [ACCOUNT] I think
the new cases in 24 hours were 150, & 60 deaths
It is said that one third of the Inhabitants
have moved out of the City

A general care appears manifest with
the Inhabitants of this place, to cleanse &
purify every filthy, dirty place throughout
the town; I rather think there is not another
seaport of the magnitude of this, that is better
cleansed & purified than this and at this
time the Inhabitants generally are in good
health.

By the latest information received from N. York
which was up to the ["7" SCRATCHED OUT] 7 o/m. The Cholera sickness
had increased to a frightful degree.
All that could leave the City had left and
more intending to leave, which left the streets
thronged with poor miserable objects, such as
depended on their daily labour for support.

The business part of the City was quite at
a stand. Stores shut up, & the people gone.