1869. 1870. 1871. January 2 4 81 February 3 5 52 March 3 9 20 April 13 14 15 May 1 19 14 June 2 23 4 July 6 22 3 August 5 33 1 September 2 66 October 92 November 2 72 1 December 3 92 —— ——— ——— Total 42 451 191 Langres was attacked with especial severity. The garrison there was composed of freshly enlisted troops (mobile and national guards), and averaged 14,629 men. The epidemic began in September 1870, and was not yet over by March 1871. The following table gives the number of cases and deaths according to Claudot. _No. cases._ _No. deaths._ September 81 10 October 145 12 November 301 34 December 598 41 January 621 91 February 402 93 March 186 53 ————— ——— Total 2,334 334 The disease raged very extensively in the French provincial armies that were organized to relieve Paris—thus in the south-western, northern, and south-eastern scenes of the war, small-pox had already made its appearance among the civil inhabitants of those parts of the country in consequence of the continual passing through of soldiers, many of whom had never been vaccinated. Orléans, Chartres, and Le Mans, were the main centres of the pestilence; in the north Amiens, Bois-Guillaume, Rouen, and other places; in the south, besides the strongholds of Belfort and Langres, the cities of Dijon, Besançon, Pontarlier, and several other places. The disease raged furiously throughout this entire region, but the exact number of deaths is not known.