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Report No. V.
TO THE VESTRY OF SAINT MARY, ISLINGTON.
Gentlemen,
Your Sanitary Committee Report:—
That in pursuance of the recommendation made in their
Report of the 5th of August, 1881, and adopted by the Vestry, the
temporary Small Pox Camp Hospital at Finchley was closed to the
reception of patients on the 20th August, 1881, only three fresh
cases having been received after the announcement was made of
the intention of the Vestry to discontinue such admissions.
The patients who remained under treatment having been
gradually discharged, your Committee were enabled finally to close
the hospital on the 24th of September last.
In the period extending from the opening (on the 15th of
June) to the 20th August, during which patients were received, 62
were admitted, one of whom was found not to be suffering from
small pox.
Of these 61 cases, 27 were of a serious type, and of these 6
died, whilst 34 of the cases were of a less severe character.
As regards vaccination, and the comparative safety which
efficient vaccination affords to persons when attacked by the
disease, it appears that only one death occurred amongst the 45
vaccinated patients, whilst 5 deaths occurred out of the 16 unvaccinated
and doubtful cases.
The largest number of patients under treatment at one time
was 44.
"The Medical Superintendent at the Camp has reported that
"the progress of the patients during convalescence was rapid, and
"unimpeded by complications; that only a few suffered, and those
"very slightly, from any after consequences of the disease; and