... OUTBREAK OF SMALLPOX IN LEEDS GAOL. A matter has occurred at her Majesty's prison, Armley, which brings out in strong relief the in- adequacy of the machinery in Leeds for dealing with infectious diseases. A man who was com- mitted to the gaol a. few ...

... SMALL-POX AMONG THE INDIANS. Reports received at Ottawa from the Upper Gatuneau state that the Indians in the desert are still in a deplorable state, and are dying in large numbers from small-pox. ...

... THE SMALL-POX EPIDEMIC AT THE CAPE. According to the latest news from Cape Town, the small-pox is spreading there. The following account of the epidemic may not be without in- terest:—Last June, in some manner not positively known, but presumably through ...

... SMALL-POX AT CAPE TO WN. CAPE TOWN, Oct. 25th (ria Plymouth). Small-pox continues to diminish, the fresh cases reported during the past weeii averaging only about seven per diem. The medical staff has been reduced, and special meotiugs of the Town Council ...

... THE SMALL-POX EPIDEMIC IN BRAZIL. The following official notice has just been is- sued by the port of London sanitary authority:— TLe Corporation of London, as the sanitary autho- rity of the port of I.ondon, hereby give notice that, in consequence of ...

... OUTBREAK OF SMALL-POX IN LIVEBPOOL.—A serious epidemic of small-pox prevails in Liverpool, but active steps are being taken to stay ita progress. It was announced on Saturday that a serious outbreak of small-pox had taken place at the Children's Infirmary ...

... vaccination properly performed is as effective a preventive of smallpox as smallpox itself is. Two points of inquiry have always engaged my attention-the one as to the occurrence of smallpox after vaccination; and the ot er as to the number of persons ...

... to small-pox, and in its efficacy as a protective against both the mortality and the disfigurement occasioned by that disease. Small-pox occasionally occurs a second time in the same individual; it is not, there- fore, surprising that small-pox does ...

... last week to point out the danger to the country at large, and especially to flockmasters, from the probable importation of smallpox in sheep. The remedy suggested was the slaughtering of all imported sheep at the port and at the time of dis- embarkation ...

... Vaudois Society of Medicine an interesting paper on the effctBof re-vaccination as practised by him during a recent outbreak of smallpox in the château prison of Nyon of which the importance will be generally re- cognized. The tint ease occurred in January, ...

... occasioned by small-pox. From the valuable information recently obtained by the registration of the causes of death, it appears that in 1837 there were, in England, only four diseases by which more people were killed than by small-pox. The number of ...

... Newport, Swansea, and Haverfordwest small-pox and bronchitis in Cardiff and Carmarthen. The excess of births and deaths in Rheidol, Aberystwith, is referred to the great increase of the mining population. Small-pox, scarlatina, and typhus still prevail ...