... tbao c small-pox. No meairal man We led fi, but the child's mother nursed alhinmhrbiugh thre disease,' and the ehild. recovered. Immediately after this the mother took the disease and died. Then two children became ill with confluent small-pox, and both ...

... fortnight of 198 patients over the large numbers presented at the last meeting. The small-pox return for the fortnight showed that 409 had been admitted to the Eastern Small-pox Hospital, of whom 31 had died. To the South-Western Hospital 32 had been admitted ...

... en T. H. Bolton pre. siding, the subject of the recent serious allegations and charges in reference to illitreatment of small-pox pa. -tients transferred from the hospital ships of the Metro- politan Asylums Board to what is designated the Con- valescent ...

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... . VACCINATION AS A REMEDY POR SMALL-POX. The small-pox epidemic which is now raging in the metropolis has naturally led to a, very earnest discussion of the well-worn subject as to whether vaccination affords any considerable protection against this most ...

... including the smallpox deaths, was 510,000. In 1875 the smallpox mortality was 950, the general mortality was 539,010. It was admitted that the average of smallpox deaths to smallpox cases was about 18 per cent.' This proved that smallpox, ...

... during the twenty-two weeks ending June 4th, 1,354 persons have died in London of small-pox, 384 of whom were under five years of age, show an enormous increase of small-pox, and are utterly subversive of the preten. sions of vaccination ; for it will be ...

... garden enclosure of Grosvenor. square or a small-pox hospital alongside Rotten- row. Then the subject would be fully under- stood, and there would be a polite aristocratic shindy. If a peer or a bishop died of smallpox the result would probably save thousands ...

... with smallpox. These represent over 200 cases. The development of the contagion is said to be almost unparalleled for rapidity and extent, alnmost all the cases registered having occurred under a week. There are now about eight cases of smallpox in Here- ...

... Board, in reply to commumnations which the managers had made in respect to the necessity for further accommodation for small-pox, patients. accommodation which the managers could not provide legally without the sanction of the Local Government Board ...

... As yet the evidence of a decrease of smallpox is not very clear. We are building or. extending hospitals without ever considering the con. ditions under which the people live. We know very little as yet about smallpox, how far it is explained by the germ ...

... Leicester, also free from small-pox, and tind 228 deaths out of 'every 1,000 births, and the cause is probably the same. We go to' Manchester to find an epidemic of small-pox, and of certain parts of London as much may be said. Now, small-pox never appears in ...