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Of the 15 deaths from Enteric (Typhoid) Fever, 2 were
those of non-parishioners in St. George's Hospital, 3 were
known to be imported, 1 was a doubtful case, and 1 was
registered as "Gastric Fever," and of the 2 deaths from
Simple Continued Fever one was that of a non-parishioner,
and the other was an imported case.
Diarrhoea caused only 39 deaths, whereas the average for
the previous 10 years was a little over 56 per annum. This
is the more remarkable, as epidemic diarrhoea was exceedingly
prevalent and fatal in London generally, causing 3,767 deaths
in 1880, as against 1,835 in 1879.
Small-pox in London.
Small-pox caused 475 deaths in London as against 458
in 1879; the numbers for the last four years have been as
follows:—
1877 2,544 deaths
1878 1,416 „
1879 458 „
1880 475 „
In 1877 and 1878 the disease was severely epidemic: in
1880 the number of deaths was still above the average of the
non-epidemic years of the last ten years.
And when we see that the total number of deaths from this
disease in the 19 other large towns of England was only 10,
although their aggregate population is rather more than that
of London, we see that Small-pox is far too fatal in London.
Out of the 475 fatal cases, there were 142, or 29.9 per
cent. in which the death certificates gave no information as
to Vaccination; of the remaining 333, "no less than 68.8
per cent. were certified to have been unvaccinated."