... I = m==ra pdytl - ?? SMALL-POX PATIENTS IN THE INFIRMARY. TO TEIE EDITOR OF THE DERBY MIERCUAY. Sir-On reading your remarks appended to my letter in your last publication, I wrote to the house surgeon on the subject, and I now send you a copy of his reply ...

... weeks, and included. 452 which were referred to the principal zymotic diseases, of which 125 resulted from measles, 94 from smallpox, 84 from whooping cough, 68 from scarlet fever, 42 from fever (principally enteric). 27 from diarrhcea, and 12 from diphtheria ...

... referred to the principal zynotic diseases, against 3&S and 375 in the two previous weeks; 105 resulted from measles, 89 from smallpox, 76 from whooping cough, 56 from scarlet fever, and ^ 31 from fever (principally enteric). The annual death-rate from these ...

... which 126 resulted from scariet fever, 10b from measles. 91 from whooping cough, 1 60 from fever, 33 from diphtheria, 31 from smallpox,E I and 28 from diarrhoea. The annual death-rate from I these zymotic diseases averaged 3'3 per 1000 in the S I twenty towns ...

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

... from diarrhwa, 115 from scarlet fever, 67 from whooping cough, 51 from measles, 43 from fever (principally enterio), 27 from smallpox, and 16 from diphtheria. The annual death-rate from these zymotic diseases averaged 31 per 1000 in the twenty towns, and ...

... dise th Wekl Bordthat had they I- opened any one of those wards to a small-pox patient they o should have run the very gravest risk of giving to the other it patients the small-pox (Hear, hear). That had they d attempted to mix up typhoid or scarlet fever ...

... valuable machinery there, and it was rumoured that they would attack the place very shortly. The report of the outbreak of smallpox at Batburst is confined, and the deaths whell (he Volta left that port were at the rato of about 10 daily, but the epidemic ...

... referred to the principal a zymotiediseases, of which 82. resulted from whooping l conuh, 57 orom scarlet fever, 53 from smallpox, d and only 26 from fev.er (principally enteric). The 1 asnnal death-rate from these zymotic diseases t averaged onul 2-0 ...

... torether 161 deaths from .l. smallpox in these two institutions, and leaving 133 F deaths from the same disease ?? over all the other districts of the parish and out-townships. Ab N, page 49 it is stated there were 314 cases of smallpox rvemo-ed to hospital. ...

... gone forth to the public on 0the small-pox question It had been said that there was 0 ample accommodation at the Infirmaryfor these cases, but he distinctly conitradicted it. There were now three male icases of small-pox in the infectious wards, and that ...

... were 3 auth deaths. The infectiouscases numbered 47,showing with an increase of 14- upon the week, including 19 cases had of smallpox and 17 of fever. The number of men that. working on the labour test was 48, while the rate- number in the corresponding week ...