... NORTH-BASI WARD.-SMALLPOX I HOSPITAL s TO THE EDITORS OF THE LEEDS MERCURY. ti s GrNsm.Et,-Tho Merioal Officer of Health, in one of n i his seports issued a. week or two ago, not only suggested, tl e but intormed the public that it wras tlro intention ...

... outbreak in our own ai borough, but mauterialy assisted in preventing the spread 1i of smallpox in Leeds anti oter disitricts. It was objetted a3 that by thhs acting smallpox was unneceisarily introduced c into the borough. But we had to choose between having ...

... greatly increased the death-rate by infectious disease, which stands at 4 7, against a mean of 2-3 for the large towns. Small-pox was fatal in 2 cases, measles in 9, and diphtheria in 3. Scarlet fever only caused 26 deaths, and other fevers 2L Eight fatal ...

... ts suffering from scarlatina, one from enteric fever, and one from small-pox, had been admitted into the HospitaL Two patients who had suffered from scarlatina and two from small-pox had been discharged convalescent. There were now 11 patients under treatment ...

... receiving a report from the Medical Officer ; (Dr Mason) as to the spread of small-pox and scarlet fever in the town. The report in question mentioned several cases of small-pox which had been investigated by the Medical Officer, and detailed the means ...

... or preventable diiseases. Those seven dsae n hi respective deaths are :-Fven rs a , dirr, 4, ucar fever 38, diphtneria 3, smallpox 0, measles , a vhuin cough 11; thie total number linug 70, and t rate8 Per 1,000 of the population in Liiads. The c hrsespondin ...

... mortality rate is 10 per 1,00 living at all ages. Fevers caused 20 deaths; diarrhera, 102; scarla- tine, 6S ; diphtheria, I, smallpox, 0; moesles, 0: whoop- ing couch, 12; total, 203. This is indeed a very heavy list, nud especially when we review the fact ...

... even then, thanka 1 partly to smallpox inoculation and more lately to the r vaccuso protection, sufferers were lit least iu a very dscided ninority; but I have hear d niy mother say that t in her early days marks of smallpox were so prevalelt E that it ...

... would die as easily from that disease as small-pox. In the third place, these figurescome from a tainted source. Perhaps you will be surprised to hear that in the London hospitals every person who dies 4 from small-pox, unless vaccination marks are found on ...

... tell the tale. (Laughter.) The most carefully w v ccinated class were the nurses isa t ie smallpox hospitals t in London, and the, wrete absolutely free from smallpox. I atll the large stnll of nurses employed by the Metro- vi pol taus ARylums Board, there ...

... wbooping-cougb, 76 from scarlet fever, 44 from fever (principally enteric), 42 from diarrhoea, 18 from diphtheria, and 10 from smallpox. No death was referred to any of these diseases either in Wolverhamoton or in Derby, whereas they caused the highest death-rates ...

... the seven principal zynnotic or preventai e diseases. They are as ?? 6 deat.s, diarrhtca, 4, Ecarlatina 30, diphtheria 2, smallpox ., measles 0, whooping-cough 8; in all, 53 deaths, and the rate of mortality is only 1-07. The cerresponding figures for ...