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Smallpox Infection Carried by the Air

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Feb 12, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 7.

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Smallpox Infection Carried by the Air

INVESTIGATIONS made on behalf of the Essex County Council, England, seem to indicate that smallpox infection is carried by the air. A list of seventy-five cases is given, which are alleged to be due entirely to the proximity of hospital ships in which smallpox patients were being treated, where there had been no communication personally. Whenever smallpox was under treatment on the hospital ships in the Thames, outbreaks occurred in the vicinity.