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It was necessary to keep the lazaretto furnished with medicine,

surgeons, food, and all the requisites of an infirmary; and it

was also necessary to find and prepare new habitations for new

cases. Cabins of wood and straw were hastily constructed in the

interior enclosure of the lazaretto; then a second lazaretto, a

little beyond, was erected, capable of containing 4000 persons.

Two others were ordered, but means, men, and courage failed, and

they were never completed: despair and weakness had attained such

a point, that the most urgent and painful wants were unprovided

for; each day, for example, children, whose mothers had perished

of the plague, died from neglect. The Tribunal of Health proposed

to found an hospital for these innocent creatures, but could

obtain no assistance for the purpose; all supplies were for the

army, "because," said the governor, "it is a time of war, and we

must treat the soldiers well."