Small-pox in Paris.

Date:
[1901]
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Credit: Small-pox in Paris. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SMALL POX IN PARIS. In view of the prevalence of small-pox in London, and the suspicion, if not the probability, that the infection has been derived from Paris, the following communication sent to us by our Paris correspondent, bringing the statistics down to the week ending September 14th, will be of interest: Small-pox has been more or less prevalent in Paris for the last eighteen months. The accompanying table will show the number of fresh cases notified and the deaths due to this disease in each week from the week beginning June 9th, 1900, to the week ending September 14th, 1901. Week. Fresh Cases. Deaths. Week. Fresh Cases. Deaths. 1900. 1901. 24 16 — 4 84 12 *5 39 X 5 78 11 26 *4 4 6 72 9 *7 19 4 7 (?) 8 28 11 3 8 51 3 29 30 2 9 63 9 30 17 2 10 71 7 31 16 I 11 94 IIs 3* 16 . 2 12 83 6 33 12 3 *3 70 12 34 M — 14 36 10 35 «5 2 15 92 7 36 41 5 16 92 11 37 33 12 17 34 20 38 46 3 18 72 5 39 38 6 19 l 96 6 40 17 7 2* 102 IS 4i 60 6 21 57 15 42 57 11 22 75 10 43 60 9 23 i 145 »4 44 90 14 24 65 20 45 75 11 25 64 ] 11 46 68 15 26 88 10 47 74 8 27 64 10 48 109 17 28 | 60 5 49 132 14 29 5i 9 50 104 9 30 33 3 51 105 8 31 57 8 52 58 14 32 3* 14 3$ 42 5 1901. 34 22 9 1 86 6 35 25 3 2 60 11 36 23 7 3 65 6 37 16 2 It will be seen that there have been two epidemic rises during this period, the first culminating in the forty-ninth week of 1900, when 132 fresh cases were notified and 14 deaths occurred, the second culminating in the twenty-third week of the present year, when 145 fresh cases were notified and 24 deaths occurred. So large a number of deaths from small-pox has not been registered in Paris for nineteen years. During this lengthy period of sixty-six weeks small-pox has caused 543 deaths; of these, 350 occurred in the first thirty-seven weeks of the present year. The prevalence of the disease seems at last to be diminish- ing, as the figures for the last four weeks tend to show. On June 30th 138 patients—64 males, 74 females—were under treatment in the Paris hospitals ; the number has steadily decreased, till on September 14th only 38 patients—8 males and 30 females—remained under treatment.