... military service * some of the most formidable ?? are, how. ever, diminishing in fatality, sunh as plthisis, enterio fever, and smallpox. The action of the last session of Parliament in introducing a Taccination Bill of a dis. tinctly retrograde character, enabling ...

... persons living. From 1853 (when the first F Compulsory Vaccination Act was passed) to 1879 the 3 innual deoth-rate, from smallpox averaged 208 5 per , million, a decrease of More than one-half ; end last year A the deatlh-rate wise otoly 22 per nililion ...