Word: small-pox
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...past session of the Summer School in Cambridge was more satisfactory than those in previous years. In spite of the small-pox scare in the first part of July, when the school opened, the attendance of 737 showed a slight gain over that of the preceding summer. Forty states and territories were represented and two foreign countries, Canada and Japan. The leading representations from the states were as follows: Massachusetts 236, New York 120 and Pennsylvania...
...when college is about to close for the Christmas recess, and men will be leaving Cambridge for all parts of the country, it will be well to take extra preoaution that no contagious disease be brought back here from other places. There is a possibility of an epidemic of small-pox this winter and it is very important that every man here should be vaccinated immediately if he has not been vaccinated within two or three years. It is pretty generally accepted among medical men that vaccination does not render a man proof against the disease for more than five...
...thirteenth of this month the General Court was invited to dine at college, at which time it was called Hollis Hall in gratitude to the late and present worthy gentleman of that name - since that time the Small-Pox has been in Boston in 20 familys which has drove a third almost of this people out of Boston, and the General Court adjourned to the College, the Council to the Library, and the House, to the Hall where they have met for the despatch of Public Business till last Wednesday; for on Tuesday night about 12 o'clock...
...Farnham's eleventh lecture was delivered last evening. The lecturer said that consumption attacked some races more than others. The Irish and Germans were particularly subject to its unconquerable power. All people are aroused when cholera or small-pox is prevalent, and yet they take but few precautions against the greater evil of consumption. Alcohol, syphilis, want of pure air and good food are all productive of this terrible disease. Inherited consumption can often be cured by proper habits and regulations of life. When anyone is told to take fresh air for his consumptive troubles, he ought to keep...
...Williams Fortnight contains the following Harvard notes: "The Advocate has been adopted as a text book in the English Lit course. - The faculty are at present sitting on the new petition for voluntary prayers. - A freshman has been suspended for cutting his teeth. - Beside small-pox, several cases of anglo-mania have broken out. The Crimson has them well under way, however. - Efforts are being made to remove Boylston Museum and Francis street to cambridge. - The conference have voted that (h)ashes must not be slung on the slippery floor in Memorial Hall...