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SMALL-POX.
Ninety-six cases of small-pox were notified during the
year, 79 of them in North Kensington and 17 in South Kensington,
Uxbridge Road being the dividing line: 84 of the
cases were removed to hospitals. The deaths were nine in
number, and four above the corrected decennial average; six
of them occurred in hospitals to which the deceased persons
had been removed from the Town sub-district. The three
deaths "at home" were all in the same sub-district; but two
of them occurred south of Uxbridge Road. The deaths from
this cause in the preceding three years had been 2, 1, and 3,
successively. In London 206 deaths were registered, the
decennial average corrected for increase of population being
304. During the preceding seven years the total deaths
from this cause aggregated 95 only, the annual number of
deaths being 24, 9, 9, 0, 4, 8, and 41, in the several years
successively. The mean annual mortality in the decennium
1883-92 was 0.07 per 1000 persons living, and lower than in
any previous decennium: the rate in 1893 was 0.05. The
notifications in 1893, corrected for dual returns, were 2813.
Small-pox in Kensington.—The cases of small-pox
notified in ten successive four-weekly periods, from the
beginning of the year to October 7th, were 0, 5, 1, 3, 8, 2, 3,
2, 0, and 1; or 25 in all. These cases call for little remark. Of
the cases recorded in the second period, one occurred at the
Casual Ward, North Kensington; the other four were in the
family of a dentist at Campden Hill, three out of the four
cases, and the death of the head of the family, being the result
of failure on the part of the medical man in attendance to
recognise the variolous nature of the first case. Some account
of this outbreak was given in my last annual report (page 27).
In the third period five cases occurred at the Marylebone
Infirmary, but these are not included in our statistics, having
been notified to the Medical Officer of Health for Marylebone