Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1875 — Small-Pox in Rome. [ARTICLE]

Small-Pox in Rome.

Dr. Toscani has made an exceedingly interesting report of the recent epidemics of small-pox in the Italian capital, by which it appears that in the space of one hundred and thirty months 3,149 persons were attacked, of whom 1,219 died, the first four being unvaccinatcd. In 2,770 cases the disease declared itself at the patients’ homes; in three cases at the hospitals; in fourteen cases in the prisons; in twenty-seven, in the colleges and seminaries ; while two hundred and forty-five patients belonged to the Agro Romano and ninety to the contiguous districts. The poorer classet furnished nearly all the victims; the higher classes only twenty-two; the middle classes, including the garrison, 233; the mechanics or working classes, 964. The persons vaccinated who were attacked were 521, of whom 72 died, or 13.81 per cent. The persons not vaccinated who were attacked were 2,289, of whom 1,065 died, or 46.61 per cent. In 339 cases, of which 82 were fatal (24530 per cent.), it could not he discovered whether vaccination had been practiced. The deaths varied in the following proportion, according to the place in which the patients were treated: At home, 46 deaths per 100 patients; at the hospital of San Spirito, 23 percent.; at San Giovanni, in Laterano, 21 per cent.; at the Military Hospital, 8 per cent.; at the Hospital of the Fate-Ben-Fratilli, 36 per cent.; at the Lunatic Asylum, 60 per cent. Among vaccinated the greatest number of deaths occurred between one, seven, fourteen and thirty years 6f age.