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Evening Star, Issue 2994, 23 September 1872, Page 4

It will be remembered that a recent butch of English news contained an item which stated that at ’ owestoft a man murdered his wife while suffering from a severe attack of small-pox. One point of interest raised in the case was that when the unhappy man was airaignod for his crime, and after he had been declared by the medical men to be absolutely free from infection and lit for removal, the judge, acting on the advice of the medical officer of the gaol, refused to allow him to take his trial, on the ground of public safety, 'the Lanctl, in commenting upon the ease, and while regretting the conflict of medical testimony, thinks the judge was right in adopting the course he did, and adds, “we do not know exactly the period over which small-pox possesses infectious properties, nor are we aware that the use of disinfectants affords any guarantee of safety.” 'the same journal points out the necessity for providing efficient restraints in. those cases which are marked by delirium, which was the cause of the melancholy occurrence above referred to.