Mary Clouter Grice
Don Congregational Cemetery
Died 24 April 1869
Age 9 years 6 months
Typhoid Fever
Daughter of William and Elizabeth Grice. (Née Reid)
River Don
Several cases of low fever are said to have occurred at the River Don, and in three instances death has resulted.
The Examiner 29th April 1869
River Don
To the Editor of the Launceston Examiner
Sir – Seeing a paragraph in your issue of April 29th respecting cases of fever and deaths at the Don, I would say your informant has been misled, and the statement is not correct.
There has been a case or two of colonial fever, but the deaths of the two little girls, which singularly took place within a few hours of each other, and who were interred at the same time, were produced in one case by heart disease, and a medical man about two years since prescribed for her; and in the second case there is no doubt it was inflammation of the lungs. I am quite aware that there are exaggerated reports about disease here, the same as there were about the small-pox at Torquay, and persons cannot be too careful before they attempt to circulate the same through the columns of the press.
I trust your informant will be more guarded in his reports for the future, as it respects this district.
I remain,
Your Own Correspondent.
The Examiner 8th May 1869