... PREVALEN(C OF SMALL-POX, TO t1he Editrr tof t,'e G1asgouw Hlerald. Sir,-A modified sisia pox, aftervacciliationi, bay- i lg drevailetifor some time past in this place, as well as iin many other towns of Englan(l and Scotland, and having provedt fiatal ...

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... report,aaent the reception of cases of small-pox into the llospital, as read to the meeting :- The Committee having t-aken into consideration the remit from the last quarterly court, anent the admission of' small-pox cases into the fos pital, were unianimously ...

... liable to be infeied with SMALL-POX, to embrace the op- portunity offered for obtaining a certain defence, a. _ainft that loathfome difeafe, by having their children Maculated for COW-POX; and this thearather, as the SMALL-POX are at. this time prevalent ...

... security in all cases, against small-pox, 'were -ddmitted st'first rather too unre- servedly.`' T'his aeknowlekgipent, however, is ac- I conmp~anied with the assuratce, that though. vaccina tion does not always prevent small-pox, it never- fails tio mitigate ...

... in our churches, our thea- tres, and in every large assemblage of the people, to see a young person bearing the marks of small-pox is now of extremely rare occurrence?. . To what can the freedom from tile vestiges ofeso. loath- v some a disease be attributed ...

... Journal, in my paper f On the pro- bable Cause of the Prevalence and Fatality of Small-Pox.'; In [al that table, the annual mortality from all causes, and that from a- small-pox, is given from 1780 to 1844 inclusive. e- The mortality tables published during ...

... onl v very doubtful. M easles has beau very fatal ; I. have registered b)7 deaths from that epiidlsmic. The fatality of small-pox is menitono~d by the registrars of Yar- mouth, Norihumptoc, NN.'olverhamipton, Birminghiam, Coventry, t Busford, Liverpool ...

... it is stated ?? the army of General Morillo was attacked by hunger anddisease; the native troops under his CoMmand by the small-pox, and the Euro- peans by the dysentery. Detachments which lad been sent into the interior had been defeat- ed, the inhabitants ...

... not.lqo g,.gow ever, .till the haippy effects of ihis invaable dkiscoe were',distinctl, felt The nu'ber of deaths, bi the: sMallpox«, began' gradually dto - ii . In .the :seven years preceding nuary 1799; no -less-:than 1577 died ...

... aseribe the excess of deaths principally to It smallpox, scarletina, and typhus, whilst a great nimber have oc- pa ouirred from pulmonary diseases, and been referred to old age. Of fl, 11 7 deaths from smallpox which. occurred at Blackbur~n 81 were without ...

... practised more exten-sivelV, niotwithistaind I i thie iniluence of exaggerated rp'm'ourss.of tle frequent occurrence of lhe small-pox #ubse- nturrtly ojii. tiho&mindls' of some persons,.and'.tle obstinate prejudiees of Dth~rs. It appearsi-how I ever, to' ...