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Small pox epidemic: states that English newspaper reports about small pox epidemic...

Catalogue reference: CO 137/476/12

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This record is about the Small pox epidemic: states that English newspaper reports about small pox epidemic... dating from 1874 Mar 11 in the series Colonial Office and predecessors: Jamaica, Original Correspondence. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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CO 137/476/12
Date
1874 Mar 11
Description

Small pox epidemic: states that English newspaper reports about small pox epidemic in Kingston are making public uneasy. Suggests enquiries should be referred to Colonial Office and includes report by Superintending Medical Officer to be used. Report states public health in Kingston generally good, apart from small pox epidemic, for which he blames peoples 'ignorance, carelessness and wilful neglect of themselves'. Public health throughout the island generally reported as satisfactory.

William A. Young, acting Governor, Jamaica 45. Folios 205-213.

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The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
3506/1874
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