Of the immobile troops in Württemberg, who averaged 10,122 men, 7·9 per 1,000 contracted the disease. Of the French prisoners that were held in Württemberg, 390 contracted the disease (the climax, 199 cases, was reached in December). The maximum number of prisoners was 12,958, and 30·1 per 1,000 contracted the disease and twenty-eight died (7·2 per cent of those taken sick). In Heilbronn,[288] as in Stuttgart, a small epidemic had raged before the war broke out; from February to July 1870 some forty persons had contracted the disease. From August to October no more cases were reported, but in November a new epidemic began and spread with great rapidity. The following table indicates the number of cases and deaths in the small-pox hospital at Heilbronn: _Patients._ _Deaths._ November (1870) 2 December 19 2 January (1871) 51 3 February 66 9 March 95 13 April 83 14 May 95 17 June 47 11 July 18 2 In addition to these, twenty-seven cases of the disease were reported in the city, so that the total number of patients was perhaps as large as 1,000. All told, seventy-one persons died in Heilbronn in the course of the epidemic. _(e) Small-pox in Baden in the Years 1871–2_ In Baden a great many cases of small-pox were reported among the French prisoners; their maximum number was 12,083, and of these 512 (42·4 per 1,000) contracted the disease, and 21 (4·1 per cent of those taken sick) succumbed to it. The largest number of cases (133) was observed in January. Regarding the distribution of the French prisoners among the various dépôts no information is available, while regarding the immobile German troops we know absolutely nothing. Among the civil inhabitants a small epidemic raged as early as the year 1869, particularly in the district of Mannheim. In the latter part of the year 1870 a considerable number of cases was reported, and a rather severe epidemic rapidly developed. According to a written report of the Baden Bureau of Statistics, the number of deaths due to small-pox per 10,000 inhabitants was as follows: _District._ 1870. 1871. 1872. Constance 0·6 18·8 3·2 Freiburg im Breisgau 3·5 27·5 2·3 Karlsruhe 3·7 33·1 5·2 Mannheim 1·0 6·5 3·4 ——— ———— ——— All Baden 2·4 21·7 3·5