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Kensington and 4 from South Kensington) were removed to hospital.
There was one death from this cause (in hospital), of a North Kensington
person, as compared with 0, 1, and 1, in the three preceding
four-weekly periods. In the Metropolis, as a whole, the deaths from
this cause were 68 (and 78 below the corrected average), as compared
with 58, 61, and 93, in the three preceding four-weekly periods.
There were 1,007 cases in the Asylums Board Hospitals on the 6th
inst., as compared with 957, 954, and 1,054, on June 14th, July 12th,
and August 19th; and 561 cases were admitted in the four weeks,
as compared with 574, 604, and 712, in the three preceding fourweekly
periods. The notifications of cases were 718, as compared
with 758, 783, and 882, in the three preceding four-weekly periods.
Small-pox.—Seventy-three cases of small-pox were notified
in London (22, 26, 12, and 13, in the successive weeks), as
compared with 963, 1,510, 1,662, 1,242, 893, 907, 355, and 140, in
the eight preceding four-weekly periods. The contributory boroughs
are shown in the table at page 151. Twelve deaths were registered
from this cause (compared with 162, 221, 289, 230, 166, 130, 67, and
30, in the eight preceding periods); 5, 3, 2, and 2, in the successive
weeks, the corrected decennial average for the corresponding weeks
being 5.9. One of the deaths took place at the South Wharf Shelters,
the remainder at the Asylums Board hospitals. Two of the deaths
belong to each of the boroughs of Bethnal Green, Islington,
Finsbury, Bermondsey, and Stepney, and one each to Battersea and
Hammersmith. One case of the disease was notified in Kensington
during the four weeks, of which I subjoin the particulars in continuation
of the histories of Cases 1 to 104, given in the ten preceding
reports—November 3rd, 1901, to August 9th, 1902.
Case 105. Jessie W., aged 22, an assistant book-keeper, fell ill
4th August, the rash appeared on the 7th, and she was removed on
the 8th. She contracted the disease from her fiance in an adjacent
borough.
Chicken-pox. —The period for which the Council made chickenpox
a notifiable disease, under the provisions of the Public Health
(London) Act, 1891, Section 56 (Sub-section (1) ), expired on the
5th August. But on 7th May the London County Council, in the
exercise of their powers under Sub-section (6), extended the
provisions of the section to the whole Metropolis for a period of six
months, which will expire on 7th November. The cases notified as
chicken-pox, during the thirty-six weeks ended 6th September, were
approximately 17,540, including 393 in Kensington. In connection
with this subject reference may be made to a letter addressed by the
The Small-pox Epidemic of 1901-2 is specially dealt with in "A Retrospect,"
at p. 154.