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SMALL POX.
Ten cases of this disease were admitted. The
first case occurred on October 20th, and on that day
8 patients were admitted to the Stonebridge Shelters,
where they remained until the 22nd when they were
transferred to the hospital at Kingsbury. On the
25th 2 cases were admitted, and these proved to be
the last.
I append a table showing the age of those
attacked, their state as to vaccination, the type of
attack, and the result.
From that table it will be seen that although all
recovered, severe or confluent attacks occurred only
in those who were unvaccinated, and that those who
had been vaccinated escaped with mild attacks.
Small figures such as these, it may be said, carry
little weight, but as far as they go they point very
forcibly to the efficacy of vaccination and to the
certainty with which Small Pox in its worst forms
appears amongst the unprotected.