SMALL-POX RAVAGES.
Small pox is committing dreadful ravages among the Canadian Indians who people the soanty and widely-separated settlements on the north shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. They are said to be dying in hundreds ; a panio has seized the survivors, and they flee from the dead and dying, leaving the former unburied and the latter uncared for, to seek refuge in the woods, where their trails are marked by lines of corpses. On being informed af this state of affairs, the local government immediately gave instructions to a physician in the adjoining county to prooeed with medicine to the relief of the suffers. The provincial authorities at Quebec having learned that the dootor in question was a political opponent, rescinded the order they had issued in the interests of humanity, and have left the panicstricken district to itself until a medioal man of their own political stamp can resoh it. This story sounds improbable. The provincial authorities, if they found that the dootor was a political opponent, would be more likely to send him to a district ravaged by small pox than to depute the task to one of their " own political stripe."
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Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2178, 17 February 1881, Page 3
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196SMALL-POX RAVAGES. Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2178, 17 February 1881, Page 3
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