I should add, for your (the Home Secretary's) information that an isolated house, called the Pest house, which is set apart for parishioners who might be suffering from infectious diseases, has been continually occupied by such patients for many months past, and is also now occupied; that in one family five children died from small pox and fever; that from the st April to the st September this year, a period of five months, there have been no fewer than ten deaths from small pox in the parish, four of them being in the huts