In connexion with the Franco-German War an epidemic of small-pox raged throughout Germany, the extent and virulence of which exceeded that of any other epidemic that occurred in the entire course of the nineteenth century. Unfortunately, in the case of a number of small States, we have no statistics relating to the number of deaths caused by the disease. The figures which I was able to obtain I have compiled in the following table. In the case of Alsace and Lorraine, as well as of Oldenburg, the two Mecklenburgs, and the other small North German States, absolutely no figures are available; judging by their population and by the prevalence of small-pox in the States surrounding them, we may safely estimate the number of deaths caused by small-pox in them in the years 1871–2 at some 4,000. ───────────────┬───────────┬───────────────────────────────────────────── _States in the │_Population│ German │ Dec. 1, │ Confederation._│ 1871._ │ _Deaths caused by small-pox._ ───────────────┼───────────┼────────┬────────┬──────────┬──────────┬───── 〃 │ 〃 │ 1869. │ 1870. │ 1871. │ 1872. │1873. ───────────────┼───────────┼────────┼────────┼──────────┼──────────┼───── Prussia │ 24,691,085│ 4,655│ 4,200│ 59,839│ 66,660│8,932 Bavaria │ 4,863,450│456[291]│516[292]│ 5,070│ 2,992│ 869 Saxony │ 2,556,244│ ? │ ? │ 9,935│ 5,863│1,772 Württemberg │ 1,818,539│ 133│ 529│ 2,050│ 1,164│ 55 Baden[292] │ 1,461,562│ 67│ 343│ 3,176│ 511│ ? Hesse │ 852,894│ 20│ 248│ 1,028│ 167│ 3 Brunswick[291] │ 312,170│ ? │ 2│ 269│ 215│ ? Lübeck │ 52,158│ │ 1│ 36│ 15│ Bremen[291] │ 122,402│ │ │ 54│ 41│ 3 Hamburg │ 338,974│ 20│ 83│ 3,647│ 323│ 3 Other States │ 2,439,576│ ? │ ? │4,000[292]│4,000[292]│ ? Alsace-Lorraine│ 1,549,738│ ? │ ? │ ? │ ? │ ? ───────────────┼───────────┼────────┼────────┼──────────┼──────────┼───── All Germany │ 41,058,792│ │ │ 89,104│ 81,951│ ───────────────┴───────────┴────────┴────────┴──────────┴──────────┴─────