One cannot be too careful when infectious diseases are about. In a rural English churchyard just as a coffin was about to be let down into a grave an excited woman came running up to the clergyman who was reading the burial service. “S’r," she said, “I want to speak to you.” Toe clergyman could not ignore her, and asked her what tjie matter was. *'Oh, sir,” replied the woman, “you are burying a man who hafe died of the smallpox next to my poor husband, who never had it.”
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4518, 22 January 1923, Page 2
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