In the District of Columbia, which for administrative purposes is identical with the city of Washington, there were notified between January 1 and March 24, 1913, 58 cases of smallpox. On March 26 there were 18 cases still under treatment. The disease has been of the usual mild type and to the present no deaths due to it have been registered. Several cases have occurred among employees in the Government departments with the result that extensive vaccination has been carried on among those in these departments. Maine. Acting Asst. Surg. Adams, of the Public Health Service, reported March 18, 1913, that 2 cases of smallpox had been notified at Thomas |