... persons brought into contact with smallpox: Local Government Board. Whitehall, S.W., February 21,1902. Sir,—l am directed by the Local Government Board to state that, in connection with the present outbreak of smallpox in London, the question has arisen ...

... connected with the preparation of food while suffering from smallpox, and also for having exposed himself in the streets while so suffering. It appeared that. though ho was unmistakably attacked by smallpox, the defendant went to his work at a bakery, in Roman-road ...

... with the outbreak of small-pox there. A labouring man who thought that he had the disease called at the residence of a doctor to ascertain if his fears were correct. On examining the patient the doctor was convinced that he had small-pox and conta municated ...

... the Folkestone County-court on Tuesday, when the widow of an undertaker's employee named Hale, whose husband had died of small-pox. sought compensation. Mr. J. C. Macpherson, M.P., for the widow, said that in June last a Mr. Spencer died at Folkestone ...

... Leeds, are spending their honeymoon in quarantine. The bride and her mother were at the time of the wedding suffering from small-pox, and the source of the infection is now traced to a brother of the bridegroom. The Leeds sanitary authorities last week gave ...

... should any case of small•pox break out. They had (as wart aware to all present) a field near Coward's marsh, where two tents were erected for infectious diseases, but the Local Government Board would not allow any case of small-pox to be brought near ...

... proposing the health of the chairman, said he was convinced that smallpox uI d be prevented by vaccination. Ho believed that if every person in the metropolis who was susceptible to smallpox, and who had not been vaccinated within recent years, were to be ...

... WAR OF A VILLAGE. A villager of Duntroon, in Scotland, was stricken with smallpox on Monday. and the authorities attempted to remove him, and some 15 other people who had been in contact with him, to the isolation hospital. It was only after two hours' ...

... measure are: Doctors must notify cases of tuberculosis (as they do small-pox, etc.) under a penalty of 40s. The low of cleaning and disinfection applies to tuberculosis as if to small-pox. County councils may, if they think fit, erect hospitals, dispensaries ...

... flowers were left. A serious outbreak of small-pox has just been reported in Croydon. It appears that a man was admitted to the Croydon Infirmary suffering from a suspicious rash, which eventually turned out to be small-pox. Every precaution was at once taken ...

... vaccinated now, and the Braintree district is rapidly becoming a vast unvaccinated area. If ever there should be an outbreak of smallpox here the place would be devastated. ...

... his wife from drowning was related to a coroner's jury at Newport (Mon.) on Tuesday night. As Mrs. Walker, matron of the smallpox hospital at Newport, was returning from town with her husband along the canal bank she fell into the water during a fit of ...