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SMALL POX.
Small Pox was the registered cause of 53 deaths, as compared with 8 in
1891, and as against a corrected average of 13 in the preceding seventeen years.
These deaths represented a death-rate of 0.15 per 1,000 of the population.
The deaths were confined to the first three quarters of the year, 16 having
occurred in the first quarter, 30 in the second, 7 in the third, while none was
known in the fourth quarter.
In the Wards the deaths were distributed in the following manner:—
2 to Tufnell, 6 to Upper Holloway, 5 to Tollington, 10 to Lower Holloway,
1 to Highbury, 1 to Mildmay, 2 to Thornhill, 5 to Barnsbury, 4 to St. Mary's,
4 to Canonbury, and 13 to St. Peter's.
State as to Vaccination.—In 29 instances the deceased had been
vaccinated, in 23 they had never been vaccinated, and in 1 instance the state
as to vaccination could not be ascertained.
A full report on the epidemic of Small Pox, which began in August, 1901,
and terminated at the close of September, 1902, has already been presented to
the Borough Council by the Medical Officer of Health, and is now subjoined
as an appendix.