A treatise on tropical diseases ; on military operations; and on the climate of the West-Indies / By Benjamin Moseley, M.D.

  • Moseley, Benjamin, 1742-1819.
Date:
1789
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Credit: A treatise on tropical diseases ; on military operations; and on the climate of the West-Indies / By Benjamin Moseley, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    * 152 ON MILITARY OPERATIONS flank companies of the 60th, 79th, and 88th regiments. The encampment continued during the months of Auguft, September, October and November; in which months it rained at different times, confiderably, on twenty-eight days. At this feafon of the year, in that ifland, the moft unhealthy, it is not to be fuppofed this was a matter of defign. There were no barracks to receive the troops, and it was a matter of neceffity. Two temporary barracks were caufed to be erected, through the good fenfe and vigilance of General Garth, at Up Park, as foon as poflible after their arrival, in which as many men as they could contain were placed. But more of the men might have been better accommodated, if fome difficulties had been removed, that the judicious proppfal made by Major Ri- chard Crewe, who commanded the light companies, might have been adopted ; which was, to occupy, as barracks, the empty houfes in the town of Kingfton. He wifely confi- dered, that health in hot climates was not eafily to be recruited, and that keeping the men