2 The health conditions in Acre after it had fallen were appalling; 1, 525 men died, most of them of malaria and hepatitis: Sham 18/184, on 25 N 1248/16 February 1833.

XREF: Builds on the many disease-and-soldier claims earlier, especially that disease killed Sudan campaign soldiers faster than combat. Builds on: "Bureaucratic error persisted in payroll after a soldier's death."

Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed…, loc. 1187