The aerial convection of small-pox from hospitals / by J. C. McVail.

  • McVail, J.C.
Date:
1894
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Credit: The aerial convection of small-pox from hospitals / by J. C. McVail. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    towns or cities may possess the necessary carrying power. No good evidence has yet been adduced of such occurrences in connection with hospitals situated in rural districts; but, no doubt, the failure here may be as much owing to want of population as to atmospheric condition. 3. Bearing in mind the conclusions arrived at by Dr. Whitelegge in his Milroy Lectui'cs, it may well be the case that part of the influence of a rising epidemic is due to the existence in any special area of a greater or less number of persons specially susceptible to small-pox, and easily infected by its first active onset. The supply of such persons would be rapidly diminished or exhausted, and would not be renewed in the course of any single epidemic.