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but in the middle of February it was in full working
order. In the following April, the Medical Officer of Health
(Dr. Puckle) reported: "The disease is now most prevalent
in the Stockwell and Clapham Districts." Then, as during the
recent Epidemic, the Metropolitan Awylums Board did not provide
accommodation for the isolation and treatment of all classes
suffering from this disease. In the four weeks, ending May 11th,
ninety nine persons died in the Stockwell Hospital, twenty of
whom only belonged to Lambeth, while forty-six Lambeth patients
died at their homes. The efforts made by the Asylums Board
were very great, for not only were some of the wards of
the Fever Hospital apportioned to Small Pox patients, but
a large number of tents was erected in the grounds for the
use of the convalescents; but still the provision was inadequate.
The Epidemic of 1871 commenced in Lambeth in the early part
of January, and disappeared altogether in September, 1873 ; and,
as in the case of the present outbreak, Scarlet Fever was its
Epidemic forerunner.
SMALL rOX EPIDEMIC OF 1876.
Lambeth was one of the first Metropolitan districts in which
a death from Small Pox was recorded. Between the months
of October, 1875, and March, 1876, the Stockwell Small Pox
Hospital bad been empty and its wards closed. Early in the
month of March a person sulfering from Small Pox was admitted
from Deptford; the patient died, and also the Nurse who
attended him. From this date the disease gradually spread, and
in the month of June it was very prevalent in the. Stockwell,
Brixton, and Clapham Districts.
The total number of cases of Small Pox reported, in which