... that there has been no change of capital, the virtue of the old sacrifices being gone. T.iey have piagued the city with small-pox. To appo se them the astrologers declared it necessary to offer up 700 lives—nun, women, boys, girls, pounhm, priests nnd ...

... advance. Professor Vambery will shortly come to London to give lectures upon the Central Asiatic question. The prevalence of smallpox in Corsica has led the Marseilles authorities to impose a quarantine on ship- ments of rags. The French Budget Committee ...

... carriage exercise. The Local Government Board have called the attention of the sanitary authorities of London to an outbreak of small-pox at Antwerp, whichia reported to be of a somewhat serious nature. A new skating surface called crystal ice has been invented ...

... was £ 213 (is 7d. The weekly returns showed 18 cases of vaccination at Aberdare, and 29 at Merthyr, there being no case of small-pox in either district. This was all the business. ...

... for the week Were 21. The Aberdare vaccinations were set down as 2(i. Both districts were said to be entirely free from small-pox. RELIEF STATISTICS. The amount expended in out-relief for the past week was said to have been f211 14 ...

... 13s Id—for re-roofing an out-house at the Workhouse. VACCINATION. The Union was reported by the officers to be free from small-pox, there having been 60 cases of vaccina- tion at Aberdare and 40 at Merthyr.— The Clerk referring to these higi, numbers, ...

... reported that in Aberdare there had been 17 cases of vaccination, and in Merthyr 29, during the week, there being no case of small-pox in either dis- tricc. Dr. James reported upon two places that were sui- table for a vaociuation station for the town, one ...

... (Merthyr) Yes.-The subject then dropped. VACCINATION RETURNS. The Vaccination-officers reported the union to be entirely free of small-pox, and that there had been 38 children vaccinated at A berdare, and 26 at Merthyr, during the week. APPLICATION FOR A TESTIMONIAL ...

... year was 136,025, and between one and five 151,364. From 1847 to 1853 inclusive the proportion of deaths of all ages from small-pox was 305 per million; and from 1668 to 1877 inclusive it was only 261. A note appended to the latter returns explains that ...

... Walter Williams is. Yours, &c., THOMAS MATTHEWS. VACCINATION. The vaccination officers reported that there were no cases of small-pox in the district, and that there had been 16 cases of vaccination in Aberdare, and 25 in the Merthyr district. THE POTATO ...

... meeting having been adopted, reports were read from th^ vaccination officers stating that the Union was entirely free from small-pox, and that during the week there had been 26 cases of vaccination at Merthyr and 20 at Aberdare. THE EMPLOYMENT OF CHILDREN ...

... determined to agitate against a measure founded upon a principle applied to no other offence. If permission to propagate small-pox is to be granted for a guinea, then permission to keep children in ignorance ought to be granted for half a crown, since ...