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hostile to its epidemic spread and prevalence among us.
As I have often stated before I have personally little fear
of its ever again assuming an epidemic character in London.
At the same time having regard to the heavy mortality of
the disease, and to the terror which its prevalence inspires,
I think it is right that precautionary measures against it
should in no degree be relaxed.
Your Cholera Committee, in accordance with the
instructions of the Local Government Board, took all
reasonable precautions in view of the possible occurrence
of an outbreak; but no case of the disease occurred in the
parish. It may be added that infantile diarrhœa was
widely prevalent and fatal throughout the country (as also
in our own parish) during the autumnal months. This
however, had no relation to Asiatic cholera, and was
doubtless due largely to the hot and dry weather which
prevailed in the summer and autumn.
(V.) ON THE CAUSES OF THE DIFFERENT
MORTUARY RATES IN THE DIFFERENT
SUB-DISTRICTS OF THE PARISH.
Some months ago a very important question on the
above subject was put to me in the Vestry Hall, and I
promised that I would make some observations on the
subject in my forthcoming annual report. The question of
the causation of such differences has always been of very
great interest, because it has naturally been assumed that
such differences are a measure of the healthiness or otherwise
of the districts in which they occur; and the question is one
that has always been of special interest in Camberwell,