WHERE SMALL-POX THRIVES.
In reply to a correspondent who asks the character of the localities in which small-pox is raging in Sydney, a contemporary says that Lower Georgestreet, where the disease first originated, is in the Chinese quarter, and Sussexstreet, where the greatest number of cases appear to have occurred, is one of the lowest and most filthy thoroughfares in Sydney. Dirt and disease generally go together, and it is always in the overcrowded, badly-drained portion of a city that an epidemic, such as small-pox, is most virulent and most difficult to stamp ont.
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Patea Mail, 31 August 1881, Page 4
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94WHERE SMALL-POX THRIVES. Patea Mail, 31 August 1881, Page 4
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