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strong effort to reach the shore, in whichfabout sundown, they succeeded, having received some assistance from the farm- house of Angus McPhail, at Argyle Shore, they were assisted thither,——were most hospitably entertained,-—and as far as possible had their wants kindly attended to. Some of the party, however, had found their way to the houses of Alexander, John and Malcolm McPhail, where the treatment was equally

as praiseworthy.

Tidings of the disaster had reached the capital, and prepara- tion for their reception at Charlottetown Hospital was kindly provided, where they were taken and placed under the fostering care of the Superioress, of that noble establishment. Here, too, a staff of physicians had generously tendered their services, under whom, after some weeks attention, they recovered sufficiently to return to their homes.

Charlottetown, subsequently, received a second institute for uthe nursing of those who may happen to fall into sickness or distress, denominated Prince Edward Island Hospital. For the former of these establishments the Island is indebted to His Lordship, Right Rev. Peter McIntyre, Roman Catholic Bishop of Charlottetown; and to a circle of generous hearted laymen, for the establishment of the latter institution.

The City of Charlottetown which until now had happily escaped all ravages of a contagious or dangerous distemper, had now become afflicted with a pestilenceknown as small-pox, a disease much dreaded. It happened that during November a laundress, residing on Long Street, washed some underclothes for a sailor whose ship was moored at Queen’s Wharf, who had duly received her wages. Passing some of the money to her son she sent to the bakery near by for a supply of bread; shortly afterwards the lad fell into a state of sickness and died ; her daughter, too, became ill, the baker, (Mr. Pickard), who had received the money of the youth. was likewise stricken.

The Health Officers, Richard 'Johnson, M. D., and Stephen R. Jenkins, M. D., thereon, being satisfied in their minds as to Ithe epidemical nature of the disease, reported accordingly to the City Board of Health, who with all possible despatch secured the old Lunatic Asylum, at Brighton Shore, then vacant, which was hastily fitted up with a number of beds and other articles as a small-pox hospital, of which Dr. John T.