Relief for Smallpox-Stricken Barbados

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 29, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 44.

Relief for Smallpox-Stricken Barbados

A further letter from Brother W. A. Sweany, missionary in Barbados, brings the sad information that the epidemic of smallpox is “increasing by leaps and bounds;” that 40,000 have so far been vaccinated, but there still remain 160,000 who are not vaccinated, many of whom are doing all they can to prevent vaccination. But worse even than the disease is the actual want now upon them in that overcrowded, plague-stricken island. Before this appeal had been made public, persons in this office had contributed $6.00. Whoever acts let him do it quickly.