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the disease, and a son scarcely recovered was playing with other
children in a common yard for that and some adjoining houses. The
woman said that she had had eleven children, and if she had eleven
more not one of them should be vaccinated. And this contumacy is
allowed. Who can wonder at the spread of the epidemic when the
fuel that supports the flame is thus permitted to accumulate ? The
weekly numbers of the 60 cases were 20, 16, 15, 9. They occurred
in nearly all parts of the parish, but chiefly in the districts of the
Queen's Road, Highgate Hill, Lower Holloway, Bemerton, Belle Isle,
Kingsland, Lower Road, and the Irsh courts. In Water's Court the
first case was one of " malignant" or " petechial" Small Pox, a form in
which the whole mass of the blood becomes disorganised. No one
can be surprised at such a case occurring in so dirty and offensive a
place. Of course the disease spread in the court. The fatal cases
registered during the month were 10. The weekly deaths were 1, 6,
1,2; they were as follows:—
At 4 Dean-street, Son of a Greengrocer, aged 1 year
From 113 Upper-street, Female Servant, aged 18 years
From 9, George-place, Labourer, aged 46 years
At 7, Mildmay-road, wife of a Merchant, aged 25 years
At 7, George-street, Master Tailor, aged 23 years
From 8, Durham-road, Frrand Boy, aged 16 years
At 18, Albany-place, Son of a Navigator, aged 9 months
At 10, Water court, Son of a Builder's Labourer, ajjed 9 years
At 26, Canonbuiy-road, Daughter of a Banker's Clerk, aged 1 month
At Arundel-road,*Police Constable, aged 24 years
Sttd to have been Vaccina'
ted, but no perceptible Cicatrix.
(Died in S. P. Hosp.)
One indifferent Cicatrix.
(Died inS. P. Hosp.)
Suppressed S. P. Premature
Confinement, Acute
Pyoemia.
After Vaccination 6 days
Scarlatina 5 days.
Two indifferent cicatrices.
(Died in S. P. Hospt.)
Unvaccinaled.
(Petechial S. Pox).
The deaths from Scarlet Fever amounted to 34; so that the death
rate from this disease varied in no degree from that during March.
The uncorrected mean for the seven previous Aprils is 8. The
weekly deaths were 6, 14, 7, 7. It evidently prevailed quite as
extensively as in March, since there is a record of 44 new cases in
Table II, the same number in four weeks as occurred in the four
weeks previously. The weekly numbers were 16, 10, 9, 9.
The mean temperature of the air was, according to Mr. Glaisher,
above the average throughout the month: in the first week 1.5 degrees
above it, in the second 4.2 degrees, in the third 4.9 degrees, and in
the fourth 3 degrees.
EDWARD BALLARD, M.D.,
Medical Officer of Health.
Vestry Offices,
May 4th, 1863.