... believe that 2,765 of the children born in Scotland in 1875, when arrived at the age of six munths, were not protected against small-pox. It is true that the deaths from this loathsome disease in Scotland in 1876 are believed to have been only 28, but the epidemic ...

... a r , )O- the case, was what could well be foreseen. No sooner logist,fully convinced that very many of the reported did small-pox attack one member of the family than appearancesof sea serpents are explicableon the supposi- all succumbed, and they are ...

... Queen's Launlrese Sys this Starch is the Best she ever used. STAIiCH IN Pites•rorr.—On Saturday last there were only eight smallpox patients in the Fulwood infectious wards, and three of them were discharged on that day as convalescent. Tnose LADIES who ...

... plaster by Mr. Barnard, a copy of which, in marble, will be presented to the Town Hall of Dundee. Three or four fresh cases of smallpox have occurred at Orsett, Essex, making about 40 in all, but seversl have been of a mild type. One of the nurses at the union ...

... broken up, and the several corps will return home by special train. SMALLPDX IN PRESTON.—There was only one fresh case of smallpox in Preston last week, and but five in 'the infectious wards at Fulwood. istrati' SCHOOL Excusstow.—On Saturday afterooon ...

... No doubt he contracted it there, but it did not develope itself until his return to Derby. He was at once conveyed to the Small-pox Hospital, where he died. The poor fellow was in lodgings where several other clerks also lived, and where also about twerity ...

... trains on the Preston and Wyre Railway for the month of August. SMALLPDX IN PREsToN.—There are at present only three eases of smallpox under treatment in Prestonall females. CHURCH TEMPERANCE MEETING.—Last night, the usual monthly meeting of the Lythatn Parish ...

... the registration agents, that they may be placed thereon. SMALLPDX. —As far as is known, there are now only two cases of smallpox in Preston, both females in the workhouse hospital. PRESTON PARLIMENTART REGISTER. —Th is year the total number of borough ...

... be desired. Eight persons of one family have been admitted into the hospital at Woodside, near Aberdeen, suffering from small-pox. One death has occurred, and one parent has been discharied cured ; but the other six still remain in the hospital. ...

... gentleman's blankets while a small-pox patient was in her house, and returned them betore the premises hal been disinfected. But, furthe-, this woman was washing for a lady who had been confined at the same time as the small-pox broke out in her laundry ; ...

... • the end of December the weekly deaths increased , . 515. Cholera set in ; diarrhcea, dysentry followed, then fever and small-pox. The deaths rose to 1,237 in the last week of February. The mortality from these epidemics subsided in spring and eummer ...

... OF AN INDIAN TRIBE. The Naga., on the Assam frontier, are certainly a very curious people. Owing to the frightful ravages small-pox has hitherto made among them, the people to the south of the hills are especially afraid of the disease, and no sooner does ...