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Wards
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
Notifications
24
14
19
21
23
29
7
6
Deaths
5
2
4
2
7
6
0
2
The deaths were distributed fairly equally among the
first three quarters, but quite half of the total number occurred
during the last quarter.
One notification of enteric fever was afterwards found
to be glanders, which terminated fatally. There were no
further cases reported from the stable where the man worked.
In the death-rate from diphtheria Camberwell stood fifth
in the list, showing that it has fallen from the unenviably high
place it occupied in 1896, when it was second. It will be remembered
that last year diphtheria was especially incident on
a certain area in Peckham, while this year it was far more
distributed over the Parish. Nevertheless there is still a
greater number of cases both as regards notifications and deaths
to be credited to this district of the Parish; there does not,
however, seem to have been any special incidence on the
district that was referred to in my report for last year and
which was then noticeable for the greater prevalence of the
disease. The total number of deaths from this disease amounted
to 167. Of these 99 took place among those that were removed
to Institutions outside the Parish, while there were 68
of persons who stayed in their own homes.
In previous years we have had experience how an unrecognised
case of small pox has been the starting point of an
epidemic, but rarely has the effect been so marked as in the
present year. The history of the epidemic otherwise presents
but little variation from the monotonous history of the beginning
in an unvaccinated person, and spreading to those that are
either unprotected, or in whom the protective power of vaccination
has waned.
On January 22nd, 1897, a boy aged 6 was admitted into
Camberwell Infirmary from No. 128, Glengall Road, supposed
to be suffering from meningitis, the result of a blow that he was
said to have received at school a few days before. After the
viii.