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Table IV. is a return prepared by Mr. Neighbour, the
Vaccination Officer, setting forth the number of cases of
successful vaccination, so far as relates to children whose
births were registered during the year ending June 30th, 1893.
The figures show that those not yet found in consequence of
removals, etc., number 146 out of a total of 1873, being 7'9 per
cent., a deficiency somewhat less than in former years.
Sickness and Deaths due to the principal Zymotic or
Communicable Diseases.
Small-Pox.—Only one parishioner is certified to have died
from this disease during the year, although it was again very
prevalent throughout the Metropolis. The patient in question
was not a resident at the time of seizure, but was an inmate of
the Holborn Union Infirmary at Highgate, where he had been
for several weeks suffering from rheumatism. He was 47 years
of age, by trade a lithographer. No information was obtained
as to vaccination, and no scars were visible.
The deaths registered in London from Small-pox numbered
206, against 41 for the previous year.
The total number of cases of sickness notified as Small-pox
belonging to the Parish during the year was 18, and inquiries
were made respecting each case with the following results:—
Three cases were ascertained not to be Small-pox; in three the
patients were of the migratory class, and were only credited to
St. Luke from the circumstance of their having slept a night or
two at the Asylum for Houseless Poor situated in Banner
Street.
One case was unvaccinated, nine were vaccinated, and of
eight no information could be obtained.
Scarlet Fever.—This disease again assumed an Epidemic
Form throughout the Metropolis, twenty-six deaths are recorded
as due to it in our own district, against nine in the
preceding year. The cases of sickness from the same cause
numbered 341. During the latter half of the year the accommodation
at the disposal of the Managers of the Metropolitan
Asylums Board has been quite inadequate to meet the demand
for beds, and a large number of patients have consequently
been treated at their own homes, much to their own