. One hundred years of medicine and surgery in Missouri; historical and biographical review of the careers of the physicians and surgeons of the state of Missouri, and sketches of some of its notable medical institutions . eathrate of 9,099. From 1873 to the present time, a period of twenty-sevenyears, there has not been a single death from cbolera in this city. In 1872 ihere was an epidemic of smallpox, the number of deathsfrom that disease in that year being 1,591. In 1873 there were 837 death from smallpox In 1874 there were 117 deaths from smallpox In 1875 there were 603 deaths from smallp
. One hundred years of medicine and surgery in Missouri; historical and biographical review of the careers of the physicians and surgeons of the state of Missouri, and sketches of some of its notable medical institutions . eathrate of 9,099. From 1873 to the present time, a period of twenty-sevenyears, there has not been a single death from cbolera in this city. In 1872 ihere was an epidemic of smallpox, the number of deathsfrom that disease in that year being 1,591. In 1873 there were 837 death from smallpox In 1874 there were 117 deaths from smallpox In 1875 there were 603 deaths from smallpox In the year ending 1900 there was but one death from smallpox; thatperson died at Quarantine. In 1877 the Health Department commenced the general vaccinationof school children and there were 5,665 persons vaccinated during thatyear. In 1881 there were 68, vaccinated: in 1894, 75,195 per-sons vaccinated, and during the past year there were 50,000 personsvaccinated. The largest number of deaths from cerebro-spinal fever that everoccurred in one year was in 1872, the year of the smallpox epidemic, when454 persons died of this disease. In 1872 the Legislature of the State passed an act creating the social. MEDICINE AND SURGERY. 157 evil law, which act was repealed in 1874. The repealing act of 74 trans-ferred the present Female Hospital (which had been bought and builtby fees collected under the social evil law) to the city of St. Louis withthe proviso that it should be always maintained as a hospital and homefor wards of the city. In 187S there Avas an epidemic of yellow fever all through the South-ern States adjacent to the Mississippi Valley. The plague came to thegates of St. Louis, but did not enter. A few deaths occurred in the city,but the largest number of deaths (about 50) took place at Quarantine,and with the exception of some eight or nine Health Department em-ployes, were nil persons who had come from the South. In 1886 occurred the greatest epidemic of di
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