Excerpt from The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 93: July-December, 1875Valley diarrhoea, cholera morbus, rheumatism. Easthampton reports one fatal case of small-pox, no new cases. South Hadley Falls reports a severe type. Of chicken-pox.Midland: diarrhoea, rheumatism, measles. A physician in Worcester states that there has been an unusual amount of peritonitis, partial and general, puerperal and other, in that city and throughout the county, during the last four months. A physician in Shrewsbury reports the death by lightning of a man in an Open field, without rocks or trees near him..Northeastern: diarrhoea, measles, cholera morbus. Unusually healthy in general. Natick has a fresh invasion of measles. Wakefield reports a fatal case of meningitis.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.