... It was true that in many of these towns there had not been any epidemic of small-pox. But the same thing might be said of other towns. The occurrence of an epidemic of small-pox depended upon many causes. There was no evidence of any general in- crease ...

... report of the Sanitary Inspector of the Chester-le-Street Sanitary Authority mentions that during the past twelve months small-pox has kept continu- ally cropping up in the Chester-le Street subdistrict of the Union, zommencing at Nettlesworth on the 11th ...

... which showed that during the quarter there had been 91 deaths, or 13 more than for the corresponding week of last year. The small-pox epidemic was practically at an end, and the Hospital Corn- mittee reported that there were only three patients in the hospital ...