Small-pox was a long time in spreading to the Scandinavian countries. In Denmark an epidemic had raged in the year 1869, but did not become very widespread until the year 1872. In Copenhagen it began in the year 1871 and reached its climax in February 1872; between January and April 1,220 cases of the disease and 86 deaths were reported there. Regarding Norway we have no statistical information. In Sweden small-pox raged in the years 1865–9, abated a little in the years 1871–2, and started up again with considerable severity in the year 1873. Stockholm was severely attacked; in the year 1873 there were 13·0 deaths per 10,000 inhabitants, and in the following year 79·2. In Finland, where an epidemic had raged in the year 1868, the number of deaths caused by the disease began to increase in the year 1872, and in the two following years the epidemic acquired enormous dimensions. The number of deaths per 10,000 inhabitants was: _Denmark._[301] _Sweden._[296] _Finland._[296] 1870 1·0 1·8 1·3 1871 0·6 0·8 1·0 1872 2·2 0·8 3·4 1873 0·3 2·6 45·6 1874 0·4 9·4 50·1 1875 2·1 4·6 8·6 1876 0·1 1·4 3·6 L. Colin reports that the pestilence spread to Russia in the year 1872, when it attacked St. Petersburg very severely. More detailed information I was unable to find. _(h) Non-European Countries_ Constant emigration to America caused the disease to make its appearance there, and it gradually spread over the entire continent. The following table indicates the number of deaths caused by it in the states of Michigan and Massachusetts:[296] _Massachusetts._ _Michigan._ 1870 131 11 1871 294 75 1872 1,029 304 1873 668 93 1874 26 19 In New York 109 persons succumbed to small-pox in the year 1869, 293 in 1870, and 805 in 1871. The disease was also conveyed to the West Indies and to Chile. Lersch,[302] moreover, reports that severe epidemics of small-pox occurred in the Sandwich Islands and in Borneo, and that 500,000 persons succumbed to it in the years 1873–5 in British India. But inasmuch as small-pox frequently breaks out there in the form of large epidemics, it cannot be assumed that the epidemic in Europe exerted any influence upon this outbreak. 6. _The Age of the Small-pox Patients. The Connexion between the Epidemic and the War. The German Imperial Vaccination Law_