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The following table shews the per centage of each one on the total
number of deaths from the different Zymotic diseases, inclusive of
those persons who died in Hospital after removal from this parish:—

SMALL POX.
The disease shewing the greatest increase was Small Pox. The
number of cases reported to us during the year (including deaths)
was 468 ; of these 230 were removed to Hospital, of whom 41 died.
The remaining cases either came to our knowledge too late in the
course of the disease for removal, or else declined to submit, and as
the surroundings of the patients were not such as would, in the present
state of the law, justify our resorting to compulsion, legal proceedings
were not taken. Of the deaths in Hospital I have been able to
obtain no particulars; but of the 47 in the parish 25 were under five
years of age, 16 of these being under two years. With the exceptions
to be presently mentioned, only three deaths were certified as vaccinated;
27 were returned as unvaccinated; of the remainder the medical
certificates gave no information; in the 27 unvaccinated cases I have
included an infant upon whom vaccination was performed a few days
before the Small-pox eruption appeared, and upon whom, therefore,
the protective influence of the operation had not time to exert its
power; it may therefore be fairly classed as unvaccinated.
Of the fatal cases, registered in Bethnal Green, thirteen occurred
in the first quarter of the year, ten in the second, one in the third, and
four in the fourth. This mortality corresponded with the prevalence
of the disease, which had steadily declined during the first three
quarters of the year, and shewed an increase in November and
December. The following table shews the age distribution of the
fatal cases registered in this parish:—