Pox

At Cleveland an army of doctors and nurses crusaded up and down the streets, stopped pedestrians, examined them for vaccination marks, vaccinated those who could not exhibit recent ones. Policemen at corners prevented entrance or exit to each street as it went under surveillance. In 24 hours, 10,000 were reported vaccinated. Then health officials announced to a worried public that there would be no smallpox epidemic. Since Jan. 1, 83 cases of smallpox had been reported, 19 of them in one day last week.