... fully subscribed to the statement which appeared in the report of the committee which had been appointed on the subject that small-pox was one of the most terrible diseases as regarded the danger of infection, and that it was the duty of the State to enforce ...

... as the number of Scotch emigrants the increase in the population was only 2522 most prevalent disease in large towns were smallpox and hooping cough. We quote the following NOTES OF LOCAL REGISTERS. RIDGE -~No births—a circumstanco iCl i ; n ° tOCC durin ...