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imported cases was one of a mail who contracted the disease at his
place of work in Bethnal Green. There had been numerous cases
in one street in that Parish, four of them fatal, and it was stated that
the malady was extensively spread from a dead body, a concealed
case, over which a species of (English) wake had been held.
There were fifty cases of the disease recorded during the year,
viz., seven in the district north of Uxbridge Road and 43 in the
remainder of the parish south of that Road. Of the seven cases
in the north five were removed to hospital, and of the 43 in the
south 35 were removed. Eight out of the 11 deaths took place in
hospital, and of the eight deaths in hospital four were of unvaccinated
persons. At the end of 1880 the disease again broke out in
a far more virulent form: the cases being both more numerous and
more severe; and the epidemic continues in full force at the present
time (June 1881). The fluctuations of the epidemic, and the
relative prevalence of the disease in the parts of the parish north
and south of Uxbridge Eoad respectively, between November, 1878,
and the end of June, 1880, were set out in a table at page 20 of
my annual Report for 1879.