... of Horfield, as reported in the lf'errvuy of Tuesday. Dr Davies, in the pursuit of his duty, has frequently traced caes of smallpox to certain districts, and stated the fact in his report to the 9anitary Authority, whereupon the local authorities have taken ...

... negatived without a division. SMALLPOX IN SHEFFIELD. Mr. PICTON (Leicester) had on the paper a resolution to the effect that a Select Committee be appointed to inquire into the circumstances of the epidemic ot smallpox in Sheffield and the surrounding ...

... from ill-defined forms of fever, 9 from diarrhoea and dysentery (a fall of 6), 2 from choleraic diarhcea, and not one from small-pox or typhus fever. Diseases of the respiratory organs caused 228 deaths (a decline of 68, and were 63 below the average). ...

... Goschen ack- nowledged the grievance, and promised a commit- tee to inquire into the working of these institu- tions. A brief smallpox debate, bringing on the vaccination question, was twice interrupted by unsuccessful counts. Ultimately, at about ten o'clock ...

... Mr. HOWELL, who had moved a resolution on the subject. Mr. PICTON moved for a committee to inquire into the outbreak of small-pox at Sheffield, and as to the effects of non-vaccination in Leicester, Keighley, aind Dewsbury. Mr. RITCHIE, speaking for the ...

... participated in by hundrfl^jg persons, was, we are told, to appease the Hi^S goddess who holds in her bands the scourjpji smallpox. The writer, commenting on thes' volting incidents, proceeds:— We venture to say that no cannibal among the most brutalizsi ...

... years was not very a !r- larga6 a le The amendment was then negatived. SMALLPOX AND VACCINTATION. 3e Mr: Picrox called attention to the circum- in stances of the recent epidemic of smallpox in Sheffield and the surroonduig district, and sug- f geste d the ...

... s. After a short discussion the amendment was negatived. FVACCINATION. M Ir. PICTON called attention to thle outbreak of smallpox ihl Sheffiell1 and surrounding districts,' 1 and suggested the appointnent Iot a committee to ascertain whether its origin ...

... the Midlandsmaintained thatthe experiences of Sheffield and Leicester showed that vaccination wasnot a' safeguard 1 against smallpox to the extent which was generally I supposed; and that, in view of. the extending oppOei- tion to compulsory vaccination ...

... Howell agreed to this. Mr. Picton bad a resolution on the paper for the appointment of a Select Committee to inquire into the smallpox epidemic at Sheffield and ascertain its cause, and also as to the results of non-vaccination in Leicester, Keighley, and ...

... pos sible to take any action tagainst thowe who adopted the term. f The motion was then negatived without a .division. t . SMALLPOX EPIDEMIC. Mr PICTON meved:- That a select committee be appointed to enquire ntao thep circucnrtarccs of tlhe epedemic of ...

... negatived. VACCIN&TEON. Mr. PICTON (G., Leicester) then called attention to the circumstances of the recent epidemic of small-pox in Sheffield and the surrounding dis- tricts, and suggested the appointment of a select committee to ascertain whether its ...