_Year._ _Cases._ _Deaths._ _Deaths per 10,000 inhabitants._ 1868 559 34 0.2 1869 1,488 133 0.7 1870 5,208 529 2.9 1871 10,848 2,050 11.3 1872 ? 1,164 6.4 But the reports were not always complete, for the reason that many cases were kept secret. The following table indicates the number of deaths caused by small-pox in the various districts: _Neckar _Schwarzwald _Jagst _Donau district._ district._ district._ district._ 1868 1 19 3 11 1869 77 5 40 11 1870 381 71 40 37 1871 883 570 173 424 In the years 1869–70 Stuttgart[286] was the principal seat of the epidemic; sixty-six cases were reported there in 1866, fifteen cases in 1867, and seventeen cases in 1868; only one case terminated fatally in the year 1868. In the year 1869, after an average of twenty cases per month had been officially reported up to August, the disease raged more and more furiously, so that the total number of cases for the entire year was no less than 744. In the following year the disease continued to increase in severity until February, when it began to abate somewhat, so that in October 1870 only thirteen cases were reported. Then the number of cases steadily increased again until June 1871, when the epidemic once more subsided a little, only to reach another moderate climax in November. In the middle of the year 1872 the epidemic suddenly came to an end. The following table indicates the number of deaths caused by small-pox in the Stuttgart epidemic: 1869. 1870. 1871. 1872. January 1 21 7 17 February 19 8 14 March 20 10 12 April 2 22 25 6 May 21 22 3 June 1 14 23 3 July 3 2 12 4 August 2 5 15 September 2 2 6 October 5 1 21 November 13 2 19 December 21 5 19 —— ——— ——— —— Entire year 50 134 187 59