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a household, is the fact that heads of the household
are engaged in making clothes for others, which, if
it were known, would ruin their business. I need
not say how dangerous such a practice is, and must
be a frequent source of the conveyance of the
disease from houses of business to their customers.
In March, 1872, a capacious and complete disinfecting
apparatus having been erected in the Stone
Yard, all the clothes, bed furniture, &c., of infected
families were speedily. disinfected, and from that
time a decline in the disease may be said to have
commenced. From the time of the erecting of the
disinfecting apparatus to the end of the year, 399
beds, 334 mattresses, 753 pillows, 1,630 sets of bed
clothes, 1,356 sets of wearing apparel, and 1,597
miscellaneous articles were disinfected. During the
year, 294 rooms were disinfected. The following
hand-bill was also extensively circulated.
ST, JAMES'S, WESTMINSTER.
SMALL POX.
1.— As this highly contagious and fatal disease now prevails
in this Parish, the Inhabitants should be made aware of the
danger to which they are exposed, and the best means of preventing
the attack of the disease, and of stopping it where it has
already broken out.
II.—In the first place, it cannot be too widely known that
VACCINATION is one of the best means of preventing the
the attack of Small Pox.