The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-07-22 00:00:00

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THE CANADIAN MIME

The first division of the army: from North Ame-
rica, about 9,000 men, have arrived at Portsmouth.
It is a particular pleasure to lie able to state, they
are in such a high state of health, that the hospital
ship by which they were accompanied was but little
required.
The following Medical Officers came home with
this division of the army :—Dr. Wright, Physician
to the Forces—Staff Surgeons M‘Leod,liacket, and
Randal.
tThe army during the campaign in Canada suf.'
fermi considerable inconvenience from the cold; many
of the soldiers had their feet and hands frozen ; some
of them lost their fingers and toes; notwithstanding
this, the winter is by far the most healthy seams,
and the number of sick during the last was very in.
considerable. The most common disease of thei
soldiery, both in Upper and Lower Canada, is
pneumonia; nest•to it, fever in its different forms,
and dysentery.
In summer, in the upper country, intermittent fever
prevent' much—is frequently obstinate—leaving
visceral obstructions, sometimes ending in dropsy.
The 58th regiment, quartered in Montreal, after
returning from Plattsburgh, were attacked by a bi-
lious remittent fever, exactly similar to that of the
West Indies ; it generally commences with shivering,
head-ache, and pain in the eyes, inclination to vo-
mit, pain in the of the stomach, but most parti-
cula•rly in the
.small of the back, bloodshot muddy!
nppearance of the eye, and flushed countenance—on
the second or third day the skin became yellow—no
difference could be traced between it and the yellow
fever. of the West. Indies,. but that it .was not so rapid
in its ptogres,, and did not terminate by black
several of the men died of it. The lancet
used freely at the commencement—opening the bowels
--.-restoring and keeping up the. perspiration, were
found to be the remedies. It continued from the
middle of October through ell the month of Novem-
ber, until the setting in of the frost, when it changed
to pneumonia. The people of the town were tint at
all sheeted by it, nos warty other regintent in the
garrison. •
The climate of Caniatilay in general be consider-
ed healthy: but it' is not at first very agreeable •to
those wile arrive freasitaigland, Or the‘moru southern
countries of Europe--It requires a resideace orittinsi
time to render it plates* •The winter is too long
and toe severe, and the emauser is in the ether etc•
treme, too short and toe Mane. • '
The people of Canada ask little progresrbethe
Useful and elegant arts t they have little or ists
Lion ; are satisfied if they txr liee as their forefalkeri
have done, and make no attempt at iteproviitiele;
possessed of a sufficiency of land, at a cheap rate, they
cultivate little more than what is noosuery for their
families. The women are subject to a swelling of the
neck, the same that has been observed ie Switzerland
and some of the valGes of the Alps; it is so common,
they seldom attempt the cure of it, and little paint
are taken to hide it. Out of twenty young' women
who expose their necks in a ball-room, fifteen of
.
them will have some appearance of the goitre.
When the army arrived in
_Canada, from being a
temrrkably cheap country, every article of the Midi
net:mite became remarkably dear, in some plume
not to he bad ; there was only sufficient for the in.
habitants themselves: the quantity consumed by the
new corners created a scarcity, and but for the Ame-
ricans, who furnished supplies of fresh beef and
floor, the army could not have been supported.
The war has been very useful to Canada; almost
every individual has profited by it; an immense sum
of money has been expended in it, and it has excited
a desire of acquiring those comforts which wealth
commands ; a spirit of emulation has begun to ap-
pear, which, with the means the war has left behind,
will more advance the progress" of civilization and,
the arts in five years, than has been done for the last
fifty.

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