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THE SMALL-POX EPIDEMIC

... THE SMALL-POX EPIDEMIC. THOUGH the actual number of deaths registered last week in London was eleven less than in the week preceding, no hope can be entertained that the epidemic is on the decline. On the contrary, the new cases admitted to the hospitals ...

ANNALS SMALL-POX EPIDEMIC

... authorities have thought well to take their time about making these contracts ; but while the anangements are still unmade, small-pox again rears its head. It is not easy to suggest what shall now be done after so much prccicus time has been lost ; but evidently ...

CORRESPONDENCE

... patient. Your obedient seevant Marsh 4, 1881. ALEX. FORREST, Secretary. PRECAUTION AGAINST SMALLPOX, To the EDITOR of the DArLYl Pose. Sir,-It is well known that smallpox has been very pre- valent-in London for a long time, and that happily it has been almost ...

Published: Monday 07 March 1881
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1897 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS

... Vera Cruz. THE SANDWICH ISLANDS. SAN FPANCISCO, Mmdl s.;- Intelligence received here from the Sandwieh Ilad states that small-pox is raging there. man houses in Honolulu have bean placed in quaraurta, and communication between the islands is stoppeil ...

Published: Friday 04 March 1881
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 314 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

WEEKLY RETURN OF BIRTHS AND DEATHS IN PORTSMOUTH

... were referred to the principal zymotic diseases, of which 76 resulted from whooping-coagh. 56 from scarlet fever, 45 from small-pox, and only 21 fromfever, principally enteric. The annual death-rate from these zymotic diseases averaged only 9t per 1000 ...

Published: Saturday 05 March 1881
Newspaper: Hampshire Telegraph
County: Hampshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1283 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

NEWS OF THE DAY

... anew the remarkable testimon of ate house surgeon of the Lon- don Smallpox Hospital, to the eflbet that dur- me the fortY years over avhich his experience etendcd rio case of smallpox had occurred amiong tle officers or, nurses of the institution, who ...

Published: Monday 07 March 1881
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 5394 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

A GREAT DISCOVERY

... in London, is shown by the Reg itrar. General's report for last week. Fourteen Ehildren under flve years of age died fronm smallpox; of these eight are known to have been invaccinated and there is no evidence with regard to five of the others. Tus, HMATNWD ...

Published: Friday 04 March 1881
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 555 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

WEEKLY RETURN OF BIRTHS AND DEATHS IN THE BOROUGH OF LEEDS

... towvs n eight oecurred in London and two in Birminghlama. l Toe death-rate from fever in the twenty towns was unusually low. Smallpox caused 491 more deaths in P London and its suburban districts and OIC in Brighton. t The annual rate of mortality from all ...

Published: Saturday 05 March 1881
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1652 | Page: 12 | Tags: News 

SECOND EDITION, 2 o'clock

... report wi as carried by the casting vote of the chairman. SMALL-POX HOSPITALS ON OPEN SPACES. A letter was received from the Fulham District Board stating that owinga tu a visitation of small-pox in the district, and to the Asylums Board Hospital becoming ...

Published: Friday 04 March 1881
Newspaper: Pall Mall Gazette
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2913 | Page: 8, 9 | Tags: News 

SECOND EDITION

... terms towards the country of I his -ncestors. but declined to say anything concern- I g t!c arariai agitation in Irelandc. I SMALLPOX IN THE SANDWVICH ISLANDS. (aEUTrEr TELEGRAM.) SAN- FRANCIS- O, THuRCOAY. inz~ligence rceeived here from the Sund-ricl I Islanus ...

Published: Friday 04 March 1881
Newspaper: Newcastle Courant
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 732 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

Scraps

... previous week, a decrease of 39, being 255 below the average, and at the rate of 21'5 per l,000. There were 44 deaths from small-pox (a decline of a1, and 5 below the average, although the Metropolitan Asylum Hospitals contained 752 patients at the end of ...

Published: Saturday 05 March 1881
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1229 | Page: 9 | Tags: News 

MERTHTB BOARD OF GUARDIANS, j

... VACCINATION REPORT. The minutes of the former meeting having been read. it was reported that the Union was entirely free from small-pox, and during the week there had been 21 cases of vaccination at Aberdare, and 31 at Merthyr.—A letter was read from Dr Davies ...