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The above return included 14 deaths (strangers) in St. Thomas's
Hospital, one in the Royal Infirmary, Waterloo Road, and one
in the Workhouse Infirmary.
PULMONARY DISEASES.
Table VI. is important as shewing the year's mortality from
Affections of the Lungs, specifying some of the principal causes
of death.
151 died in the Workhouse Infirmary from the above diseases ;
there are also included 51 deaths of strangers in the various
Hospitals.
The number of coses of illness from Epidemic diseases attended
by the Poor Law Medical Officers during the year was 684, as
will be seen on reference to Table VIII. The total number last
year was 552. With the exception of Small Pox, nearly every
other Epidemic disease shews a decrease. The number of cases
of Measles, was 51 as against 50; Scarlet Fever, 55 as against
173; Whooping Cough, 20 as against 32; Fevers of all classes,
99 as against 128,
THE SMALL POX EPIDEMIC OF 1871 COMPARED
WITH THAT OF 1876.
In the former case, Lambeth was one of the last Parishes in
which Small Pox made its appearance, the North and South Marsh
Wards being the Districts in which it first broke out. In the
month of January, 1871, Stockwell Small Pox Hospital was
not ready for the reception of patients, but all the other Small
Pox Hospitals were full; consequently the Lambeth Guardians
provided a temporary Hospital in the Palace New Road, in the
building now used as the out-door department of the Poor
Law Dispensary. On January 25th the Stockwell Hospital
was opened, affording accommodation to fifteen patients only,
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