Manchester, July 10.
The last smallpox scare in Great Britain occurred about 21 years ago. Six years before there had been a terrible epidemic of the dreaded disease in the old City of Gloucester resulting in many deaths. The country is now in the throes of another bad scare and once more Gloucester is the offending city with the largest proportion of cases. But while'vn the former occasion the disease was of the most malignant description and no one in the City questioned the medical diagnosis, the outbreak of to-day has achieved additional. publicity through the extraordinary obsession of the citizens who contend that the epidemic troubling them is a mild form of chickenpox. The controversy has created such interest that questions have been asked in Parliament, where the Health Minister has assured the Members that it is smallpox, and warned the country of the danger of its spread to unaffected areas.
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