Show pacts facts about smallpox from the mercur miner two cout ngo ago smallpox was waa causing moro more than one donth of all tho the deaths of the human race fifty million of tho the inhabitants of europe were swept away in ono hundred years in 70 per cent of tho the people of greenland died of smallpox A fow few years before that eight eon thousand inhabitants of iceland died in one year when the spaniards introduced tho the into mexico th roo and ono one half in illions died in a few deais and it baa boon been computed that six BIX million fi i of tho the coith th american indians indiana lavo lave fallen victims to tho the of smallpox pe C in somo some coun records record 9 have ben been kept of the pro groEs roea 0 of f this thia disease and tho the records aro doiy interesting these logoida dhow that 1 all pox la is generally kept nory oll under control but tho the Ilson so still exists in neatly land and every once in a whilo it breaks out in a virulent viru lont form and moro more are added to its ravages the extreme contagiousness of tho the disease its loathsome character and the iho high bish rato rate of mortality certainly make smallpox a io tobo to bo feared and all precautions should ijo bo talon to prevent its ita among the people |