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for the whole parish, and to 1.5 per 1,000 only in the Bromptott
Sub-district. The rate in all London and in "twenty large English
Towns" was 3.5, and in "fifty other large Town Districts."
throughout the kingdom 3.0 per 1,000. The death-rate from
each of these diseases in Kensington, small-pox only excepted, was
below the decennial average. The only diseases that call for special
notice, besides small-pox, are the principal varieties of "Fever."
Small Pox.—The epidemic of small-pox—an account of which
occupied a large space in my last Annual Report, the history having
been brought down to the month of September, 1877, when
the disease appeared to be dying out, not in Kensington only, but
in the Metropolis generally, began to assume larger proportions
before the close of October, and continued to increase until the
middle of April, in the current year, when it again began to decline.
The subjoined table shows the progress and the fluctuations of the
disease in this parish from what was practically the commencement
of the epidemic in October, 1876, to the end of June, 1878 :—