... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... Wharf, Rotherhithe. - street, for the purpose o f converting it into a lauding. stage for the shipment of patients to the smallpox hospital-ships at Long Reach. Ur. T. S. DBrraut pre- siented a petition against the proposal signed by, residents of Rotherhitlie ...

... The 11O deaths in the borough inaluded 4 whieh woe e referred to scarlet fever, 2 to whooping-cough, 2 to fever, 1 to smallpox, and llot 1 either to measles, diphtheria, or diarrhoea; in all, only 9 deaths renulted from these prin- cipal zymotic diseases ...

... referred to scarlet fever, four to fever, two to whooping-cough, one to dipbtheria, ose to diarrlhsa, and not one either to smallpox or smeasles; in all, 33 deaths resalted from these principal zymotic diseases, against 26 and 38 in the two preced- ing weeks ...

... Of the 100 deaths frens smallpox in England anid Waeis daring the quarter, 38 occurred in Loniton, 23 in West Broniwichi, 11 in WVolverbamptou. 384 in Newcastle-upon-Tyire, and 16 in, Gatesiread. Tise prevalence of smallpox in London, j udged byt the ...