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On February 18th, at 2, Churchill Place, female, aged 2 years; convulsions following smallpox.
On February 19th, at 32, Bemmerton Street, daughter of a Carpenter, aged 3 weeks; duration,
10 days.
On February 25th, at Small-pox Hospital, from 49, Richmond Road, female, aged 14 years ;
duration 13 days. One indifferent vaccine scar.
Since the first week of the month the number of cases of small-pox,
which have been returned to me, has greatly fallen off; a fact which is
coincident with an almost universal anxiety manifested by the public to avail
themselves of the protective influence of vaccination, and of re-vaccination,
and with the energetic measures now adopted to search out unprotected
children. The weekly number of cases noted by the Parochial Medical
Officers, and at the Islington Dispensary, together, were 12, 3, 0, 2. Of the
six cases also received from Islington into the Small-pox Hospital, only one
entered subsequently to February 8th.
The weekly cases of scarlet fever were 5, 8, 7, 7.
The cases of pulmonary affections have been unusually numerous.
EDWARD BALLARD, M.D.,
Medical Officer of Health.
Vestry Offices,
March 2nd, 1860.