In the year 1871 small-pox did not spare a single Department in France, although many of them failed to send in reports. Vacher estimates the number of deaths due to the disease in the year 1871 at 58,236, but he adds that the estimate is too small. No report, for example, was sent in by the Department of Sarthe, where in the city of Le Mans alone there were 1,181 deaths, nor by the Department of Haute-Garonne, where there were 1,328 deaths in Toulouse. The total number of unreported deaths, therefore, must have been at least 20,000. It is almost impossible to estimate the number of deaths that occurred in the year 1870. From the available statistics Vacher estimates the number of deaths caused by the disease in the two years 1870–1 at 89,954, a figure, as he himself says, ‘which represents only a part of the reality.’ Another estimate made by Vacher, putting the number of deaths caused by small-pox in the years 1869–70 at 200,000, is in all probability not an exaggeration. In the year 1872, to be sure, small-pox appeared in the form of epidemics in numerous parts of France, but nowhere did it spread so widely as in the two previous years. According to a report worked out by Delpech for the years 1870–2, no less than 42 Departments failed to make any report at all in the year 1872, while only 18 of the remaining 41 Departments sent in reports regarding epidemic outbreaks of small-pox. The epidemic lasted until 1873, in which year reports regarding small-pox epidemics came in from 10 Departments; but only in the Departments of Morbihan and Pyrénées-Orientales was the epidemic apparently somewhat more intense.[261] 2. _Small-pox among the French Prisoners_