There has been quite an epidemic of crime lately, as you know, Mr. Crewe.

The winter of the Big Snow an epidemic of pneumonia carried off the Indians with scarcely a warning; from the lake northward to the lava flats they died in the sweat-houses, and under the hands of the medicine-men.

At last the problem grew into the problem of problems, the problem of government, that threatened all freedom, as an epidemic disease threatens even the most healthy.

Some trouble, perhaps some effect upon his health of cholera which then swept Paris, caused him to return to his native Mauritius, to encounter an epidemic of cholera.

The public health officer of the future will be armed with a new weapon in his fight against the spread of an epidemic.

Sorry, but there's an epidemic of smallpox at the Quarter Circle KT and you can't come.

I've heard that his mother died when he was born and his father was a preacher or something doing missionary workI reckon that's what you'd call itamong the Mexicans and Indians and got the smallpox while he was nursing them through an epidemic and it killed him, which left th' Ramblin' Kid an orphan when he wasn't much more than a baby.

But though such an epidemic has its origin in the instinct of imitation so common in men, you must not suppose that the mental process is a conscious one.

"It looks something like an epidemic," remarked Gerald.

Early in the second year there was an epidemic of yellow fever:

Small-pox, typhus, and typhoid are never absent, and every two or three years an epidemic of cholera breaks out and carries off a fearful percentage of the inhabitants.

And that only made things worse; for as soon as the beggars found out the sewage was worth anything, they were down on me, as if I wanted to do themI, Mark Armsworth!and would sooner let half the town rot with an epidemic, than have reason to fancy I'd made any money out of them.

It was an epidemic.

I was not sorry that at this time an epidemic of measles broke out in Sacramento, and Georgia became one of its early victims.

Thirst seemed to be a prevailing agony among the scholars, and it seized its victims as an epidemic doeswithout warning.

Van Hee had come to Brussels, he told us, for the purpose of obtaining some vaccine, as the supply in Ghent was running short, and the authorities were fearful of an epidemic.

*** There appears to be an epidemic of trouble in the animal world.

In 1782, there was an epidemic, and on May 2 in that year, says Sir Thomas Watson "Admiral Kempenfelt sailed from Spithead with a squadron, of which the Goliah was one.

SIR,A report (proceeding, I have reason, to believe, from ill-conditioned residents at Slushborough) is being disseminated to the effect, that the water-supply of Northbourne is largely tainted with typhus and diphtheria germs, and that an epidemic is already ravaging this place.

Hardly had they got thawed out when an epidemic of mumps broke out.

The result of six weeks of untiring effort on the part of Mr. Finney and his confreres was one of those intense revival seasons that swept over the city and through the seminary like an epidemic, attacking in its worst form the most susceptible.

Judging by the record, an epidemic seems to have attacked the municipal officials in January, 1899.

CHOLERA MORBUS, an epidemic disease characterised by violent vomiting and purging, accompanied with spasms, great pain, and debility; originated in India, and has during the present century frequently spread itself by way of Asia into populous centres of both Europe and America.

These buildings are not adapted for this purpose; they have no sinks, lavatories, kitchens or sleeping apartments, and there is great danger of an epidemic of sickness if the troops are not soon removed.

" There had been an epidemic of colds in the town, and one physician who had had scarcely any sleep for two days called upon a patientan Irishmanwho was suffering from pneumonia, and as he leaned over to hear the patient's respiration he called upon Pat to count.