In the Province of Pomerania the city of Stettin came to be a general rendezvous for prisoners of war; the maximum number of them, owing to the continual arrival of new transports, was no less than 21,000. The first transport arrived on August 12, and the first small-pox patient among them was committed to the hospital on August 28. Of the prisoners, 1,303 contracted the disease and 194 succumbed to it. The climax of the epidemic came in January, when there were 462 cases reported. The first cases in the garrison, which averaged 7,000 men, occurred in October, the first man to contract the disease being a sick-attendant, and the second an artilleryman; after that, all the branches of service were attacked. The epidemic in the garrison, however, was confined to 74 men, only 5 of whom died. In December the disease spread to the civil population; the number of cases (including the garrison) was 422 (55·5 per 10,000) in the year 1871, and 113 (14·8 per 10,000) in the following year. In the Governmental District of Stettin only the communities surrounding the city of Stettin had high small-pox figures in the year 1871, and these communities were also more severely attacked in the year 1872. The following table indicates the number of deaths per 10,000 inhabitants in the communities mentioned: 1871. 1872. Demmin 1·1 2·6 Anklam 4·3 15·8 Usedom-Wollin 16·4 16·2 Uckermünde 24·7 26·4 Randow 70·4 29·3 Greifenhagen 37·8 26·3 Pyritz 15·3 23·1 Saazig 27·8 27·4 Naugard 32·4 32·6 Kammin 10·3 13·3 Greifenberg 4·3 10·4 Regenwalde 16·4 27·5