... was that measures would be taken to secure the preservation of order and the observ- ance of the law. THE DISSEMINATION OF SMALL-POX. Mr DODSON (President Local Government Board), in reply to Mr Talbot (C., Oxford Uni- versity), said that a circular would ...

... occupied. It was recommended that the fever hospital at Deptford should be appropriated to the accommodation -of the additional smallpox cases.' Sir E. H. Curris said that there was not a spare bed at the East-end hospitals, and he proposed that a letter should ...

... TRAvELLERS,-Miss Edith Dore, a young lady, twenty-six years of age, has just died in the Reigates workhouse infirmnary of small-pox. She was visiting some friends at the adjoining village of Mers- than, and while coming by train into the town, noticed that ...

... Guar-b is diane had been unable to receive the first small-pox in patient, and said that an arrangement had been come to Is P, by whbich the Sanitary Authority was to find accommoda- I In tion for small-pox patients, and the Guardians to pay Pro A. rota for ...

... several district meetings, were under consideration when the committee ad- journed. SorfxaaPOX.-The difficulty of isolating smallpox patients from the rest of the population has ap- parently been found no less serious in Paris than in London. At present ...

... per 1,000. The seven diseases and their respective deaths are as fol- ?? 15, diarrhoea 7, scarlet fever 16, diphtheria 2, smallpox 0, measles 2, whooping-cough 33. The mor- taity rate of those seven diseases shows no tendency to excess. The fevers have ...

... valuable machinery there, and it was rumoured that they would attack the place very shortly. The report of the outbreak of smallpox at Bathurst is connrntcd, and the deaths when the Volta left that port were at the rate of about 10 daily, but the epidemic ...

... Zymoric diseases occasioned 27 deaths, beings a decrease of 33 on tile averages. Of deaths from zymotic causes, 1 was due to smallpox. not vaccinated, being 8 below the average; 1 to measles, being 10 below the average; 3 to scarlatina, being 5 below the ...

... were chiefly fatal accidents. The accounts rendered as to the causes of death are far from satisfactory; thus a death by small-pox was placed on record in the Cardiff district. ,iarlet fever cinsred no less than 225 deaths in the division, I diphtheria ...

... Newcastle-on- Tvne. Diarrifboa fatality showed a further general decline, and was conusiderably below the average for the season. Smallpox caused 24 more deathsin London and its outer ring of suburban districts but not one in any of the rnineteen large provincial ...

... He kept the clothes in his house a few days before returning them. Shortly after their return their owner also took the small-pox, was conveyed to the hospital, and died there. Since then several houses in the same neighlnourhood have be- come infected ...

... continues to be remarkably mild, and people begin to sigh for frost. Un- happily, London is threatened with an epidemic of small-pox, and still more unfortunately, the authorities announce their inability to cope with the malady as they could wish. The decision ...