Editorials.

The article discusses the general issues related to the United States. The recent epidemic of smallpox has had the usual effect of calling public attention to the merits of vaccination, and of producing a large amount of discussion over the subject. Smallpox never arises spontaneously, it is always derived from a case of disease. Vaccination was supposed to be an absolute preventive against smallpox, but it also increases mortality from diseases other than smallpox. The growth of some of the larger universities in the U.S., is raising a question that whether larger organizations should be divided into separate schools, each school having plenary jurisdiction over the students and the affairs of that school, or should it maintain its organization in its integrity.