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g the inhabitants, and thus spread to Medford. The townsmen decided to attack this epidemic by inoculation. It was voted that the town should provide a house for the reception of any person who was taken with smallpox in the Natural Way. It was also voted that if the Selectmen should find any person who had been attending a sick person, they should give that person liberty to go to the smallpox house and be inoculated under the proper restrictions. The epidemic again visited Medford in 1788. Town Records Volume IV., page 65. The freeholders were called together for a consideration of what the town should do concerning the removal of the William Cutter family, who had the smallpox, and what the town should do concerning the establishment of an inoculating hospital for two months. It was voated to remove all persons who were subject to the smallpox to a suitable house, subject to the will of the Selectmen. It was voted that if any person chanced to have the smallpox he might o