Excerpt from Thirty-Fourth Annual Report of the State Board of Health of Massachusetts The comparative immunity of the paper mill towns and villages in this epidemic is notable, when compared with the facts reported in earlier epi demies, especially in that of 1872 - 73, this fact being undoubtedly due to the greater care which such towns have taken to secure the vaccination of their inhabitants who were specially exposed to small-pox in consequence of the use of rags in the manufacture of paper. Occupations. -the occupations of persons attacked are not stated with sufficient detail to enable us to present exact figures. It appears, however, from the returns received, that women engaged in housework, laborers, teamsters, mill operatives and shoemakers were attacked in largest numbers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.