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Small Pox and Vaccination.—A return furnished of
the number of Vaccinations performed during the past
year indicates a still more strict observance of the law
than formerly, and from this circumstance we may
calculate that Small Pox, if it does not occur less
frequently, will, at all events, present itself with much
less intensity than under the old enactment, which permitted
so many to escape the penalties attached to their
neglect.
One death only from Small Pox is recorded in the
present mortality table, and it should be noted that the
sufferer in this case did not contract the disease within
this sub-district.*
Non-Zymotic Diseases.— Tubercular diseases, including
Phthisis and diseases of the Respiratory Organs, were
amongst the most fatal of the year. Of the 26 deaths
due to the Tubercular form of disease, there were as many
as 18 registered as Phthisis. A less number of deaths by
9, the result of other forms of Non-Zymotic disease,
occurred in the past than in the preceding year.
Ages at Death.—In consequence of the number of
deaths from Scarlet Fever amongst children, the columns
in the above table, marking the ages at death from 1 to
20 years, present much higher figures than do those in
the table of the previous year, in the proportion of 75 to
56 ; whilst the columns denoting the ages at death from
20 to 80 and upwards give, in the aggregate, a less
number by 50 compared with 1870.
The deaths certified as being due exclusively to Old
Age amount to 7. The number dying from all causes,
*By inquiries made of the Union Medical Officer and by reference to
the District Medical Relief Book, it is found that, of 14 cases of Small Pox
occurring amongst the Union Poor in Putney and Roehampton during 1871,
there were received into the Small Pox Hospital at Stockwell, 12 patients.
Of these one died in that institution. There were also two of the same class
treated at their own homes in Putney, one of whom died and one recovered.
Of the cases treated in strictly private practice there exists no authentic
record, but it is believed they were very few, and of a mild type.