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Report No. IV.
TO THE VESTRY OF ST. MARY, ISLINGTON.
Gentlemen,
Your Sanitary Committee Report :—
That they will be able, as they anticipated in their Report of
the 20th of June, 1881, to meet their liability in respect to the
preliminary and other expenses incurred in connection with the
Camp Hospital and Small Pox Epidemic, out of the sum of £4,300
voted by the Vestry, and that they now only require the cost of
maintenance, which they have estimated at £600 up to the end of
September next.
In case the necessity should continue, a further sum of £300
per month would be required, as stated in their estimated expenditure
of £1,800 for the six months ending Lady-day, 1882, subject to the
approval of the Vestry.
As regards the epidemic, your Committee do not consider its
present decline in London, generally, as any certain indication of
its passing altogether away, for until the Autumn shall have gone
they believe that it is impossible to predict whether or not a
renewed or even a severer outbreak may be likely to take place.
That the decline has been liable to sudden fluctuations in
different localities there can be no doubt, and in Islington alone,
during the last week, ending 30th July, 24 fresh cases occurred,
this number being larger than in any week since that ending the
18th June, and out of these 24 cases, 15 were received into your
Camp Hospital,