| January (1871) | 8 |
| February | 14 |
| March | 24 |
| April | 35 |
| May | 42 |
| June | 34 |
| July | 17 |
| August | 14 |
| September | 2 |
| October | 9 |
| November | 14 |
| December | |
| January (1872) | 17 |
| February | 18 |
| March | 11 |
| April | 8 |
| May | 6 |
| June and July | 5 |
The total number of deaths, some of which are not included in the monthly lists, was 234 (45·7 per 10,000 inhabitants) in the year 1871, and 71 (13·8 per 10,000) in the year 1872.
In Regensburg sixteen persons (eleven prisoners, three soldiers, and two civilians) contracted the disease in the latter part of 1870; in 1871 as many as 123 persons contracted the disease, and of these thirty-three died. In Bamberg the first two cases were reported in December 1870, the disease having been brought there from Würzburg; up to August 1871 some ninety persons contracted the disease, among them twenty-three prisoners and five soldiers; of these, eight died. After a short lull, new cases were reported (between December 1, 1871, and August 1872); there were thirty-one cases, all told (seventeen of the patients being soldiers), and only one death.[[284]]
(d) Small-pox in Württemberg in the Years 1871–2
In Württemberg, where vaccination had been compulsory since 1818, but had been frequently evaded in the ‘sixties in consequence of the agitation of the anti-vaccinationists, an epidemic of small-pox raged in the years 1863–7, causing, all told, 804 deaths. In the latter part of the year 1869 a new epidemic began and carried away many people, particularly in Stuttgart, but also in the rest of the Neckar district. With the arrival of the French prisoners the number of cases increased rapidly, and the disease appeared in many places which had never before been attacked. The following table indicates the number of reported cases and deaths:[[285]]
| Year. | Cases. | Deaths. | Deaths per 10,000 inhabitants. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1868 | 559 | 34 | 0.2 |
| 1869 | 1,488 | 133 | 0.7 |
| 1870 | 5,208 | 529 | 2.9 |
| 1871 | 10,848 | 2,050 | 11.3 |
| 1872 | ? | 1,164 | 6.4 |
But the reports were not always complete, for the reason that many cases were kept secret. The following table indicates the number of deaths caused by small-pox in the various districts:
| Neckar district. | Schwarzwald district. | Jagst district. | Donau district. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1868 | 1 | 19 | 3 | 11 |
| 1869 | 77 | 5 | 40 | 11 |
| 1870 | 381 | 71 | 40 | 37 |
| 1871 | 883 | 570 | 173 | 424 |
In the years 1869–70 Stuttgart[[286]] was the principal seat of the epidemic; sixty-six cases were reported there in 1866, fifteen cases in 1867, and seventeen cases in 1868; only one case terminated fatally in the year 1868. In the year 1869, after an average of twenty cases per month had been officially reported up to August, the disease raged more and more furiously, so that the total number of cases for the entire year was no less than 744. In the following year the disease continued to increase in severity until February, when it began to abate somewhat, so that in October 1870 only thirteen cases were reported. Then the number of cases steadily increased again until June 1871, when the epidemic once more subsided a little, only to reach another moderate climax in November. In the middle of the year 1872 the epidemic suddenly came to an end. The following table indicates the number of deaths caused by small-pox in the Stuttgart epidemic:
| 1869. | 1870. | 1871. | 1872. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 1 | 21 | 7 | 17 |
| February | 19 | 8 | 14 | |
| March | 20 | 10 | 12 | |
| April | 2 | 22 | 25 | 6 |
| May | 21 | 22 | 3 | |
| June | 1 | 14 | 23 | 3 |
| July | 3 | 2 | 12 | 4 |
| August | 2 | 5 | 15 | |
| September | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
| October | 5 | 1 | 21 | |
| November | 13 | 2 | 19 | |
| December | 21 | 5 | 19 | |
| Entire year | 50 | 134 | 187 | 59 |