... favournably, rodified by the in- crease in our population. Still, these facts re- main-that there was not a fatal case of smallpox in our urbanl sanitary district in 1881 ; that the mortality from scarlet fever wws less by 1'!7 dea;ths than in 18S3 ; and ...

... rioL been any epidemic of sM0otllox. But the siwle thing might be said of other towns. The occurrence of an enidc-mic of smallpox de- pended upon many causes. There was no evidence of any Vener1al increase of resistance to vaccine- tiom, the last returns ...