Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1885 — SMALL-POX. [ARTICLE]

SMALL-POX.

Terrible Ravages of the Disease in Montreal. [Telecram from Montreal,] There is no abatement in the small-pox epidemic here yet, but there are hopes that the ne*w measures coming into operation of compelling all to be vaccinated and those suffering from the disease to be isolated, will lessen the mortality. The daily deaths in city and suburbs last week averaged forty-five. There are 130 patienfs under treatment in the civic hospital The greatest energy on the part of the health authorities, both provincial and city, is being employed, with the assistance of leading merchants and clergy of all denominations, to get the malady under control. The sanitary laws passed by Parliament for combating? the epidemic, and which give arbitrary powers to the Board of Health, have been invoked, and special Stipendiary Magistrates are to sit daily to enforce the rules submitted by the local board for stamping out the scourge. A large force of doctors employed by the Health Board willcommence ajsystematic vaccination from house to house all over the city on Monday, and all who refuse will be brought before the Magistrates and fined.