_Total no. deaths._ _Deaths per 10,000 inhabitants._ 1862 3,894 2·1 1863 6,250 3·4 1864 8,904 4·6 1865 8,403 4·4 1866 11,937 6·2 1867 8,500 4·3 1868 4,510 1·8 1869 4,655 1·9 1870 4,200 1·7 1871 59,839 24·3 1872 66,660[265] 26·9 1873 8,932 3·6 In the year 1874 only one person per 10,000 inhabitants succumbed to the disease. Among the French prisoners small-pox usually broke out very soon after their arrival at their place of detention, while among the inhabitants of the places in which the prisons were located it usually did not make its appearance until several months later. Guttstadt,[266] in his excellent work on the _Epidemic of Small-pox in Prussia in the Years 1870–1_, has compiled a table of statistics indicating in a number of places when the disease first made its appearance among the prisoners and among the civil inhabitants. We reproduce this table below, with a few small alterations. In some of the places mentioned there was no military prison; only prisoners suffering from small-pox were taken to them, usually resulting in an epidemic of the disease among the civil inhabitants. The table clearly indicates the connexion between the small-pox epidemics among the civil inhabitants and the outbreaks of the disease among the prisoners; regarding the manner of dissemination in the case of the individual epidemics we shall have more to say further on. THE APPEARANCE OF SMALL-POX AMONG PRISONERS-OF-WAR AND AMONG THE CIVIL INHABITANTS IN THE GERMAN CITIES IN THE YEARS 1870–1