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Small Pox is the most fearful disease inflicted
on the human race, leaving" on those whose lives
it spares the hideous marks of its power, and
attacking rich and poor, high and low, alike.
Unfortunately these facts are forgotten or really
not known, and though, thanks to vaccination, it
is now the exception and not, as it once was, the
rule to see pock-marked faces at every turn, we
are yet, with the help of the law, providing the
means for creating victims for future epidemics.
The following table, which is now being
included by an increasing number of Medical
Officers of Health in their Annual Reports,
provides some interesting and instructive particulars.

N.B. — Many of the unaccounted for are not
yet 6 months old.
Midwives' Act.—By this Act of 1502 those
women then practising as midwives on their own
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