... 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 ...

... one of small-pox; 1876, s three fever and no small-pox; 1876, 22 scarlet fever and fno small-pox 1877, 12ecarletfever and two small-pox; 1878, none of either; 18.79), two of scarlet fever and no tsmall-p~ox;* 1880, no scarletefever and two small ...

... boy with smallpox, without producing any effect at all. The experiment was repeated with the same result, and' the efficiency of vaccina, tion as a security azainat smallpox *as esta- blished on the solid foundation of fact. At that time smallpox was a national ...

... one that bas been proved beyond the reach of cavil or coo. troverey, it is the efficacy of vacfination as a preventive of small-pox. Thus, when Mr, Peter Taylor got up le the Homue of Commons, one day last week, and sald tiot there was a mars of testimony ...

... As yet the evidence of a decrease of smallpox is not very clear. We are building or. extending hospitals without ever considering the con. ditions under which the people live. We know very little as yet about smallpox, how far it is explained by the germ ...

... The deaths from zymotic discascs, wbich nulin- bored 20, included 7 from smallP)ox. Tile medical officer was please(d to be able to report more favourably with regardl to thi smallpox epidemic. Since thfe last mceting of tel Council 48 patients hadl eel ...

... Thel' as to the facts of the case as givon by sic L. Playf air. The returns show that while thie rate of mortality from small-pox was 8,000 l itr Million in the Last century, the voluntary vatcicatttonl i force during the first forty years of tthis century ...

... 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 ...

... health of the entire community. Few things are more absolutely curtain than that prior to the introduction of vacolnation small-pox was a universally dreaded disease. In great centres of population it was never absent, its infectious character making It ...

... registered dulring the ?? Inspector ft of -iisloaimaqS, a;onioigst other sematters, reportel seith reforelce to in the casne of smallpox sald it appeared that it hail bhoot impsorted 1): ito to the district. A stean eanmed *Jls. tGoodtwins, of lranchise cc Street ...

... detail into the historical statistics to illustrate the diminished mortality from smallpox due to vaccination, and referred also to the ex- perience of the'nurses in the smallpox hospitals of tha London Post-office and of the Telegraph Service. A comparison ...

... in the evening. One boy became delirious in the school; one or two died from brain fever. We have had scarlet fever and small-pox very bad in the place; and our mistress said to me one day, 'I am sure that this scarlet fever is caused in some instances ...