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to occurred to children under five years of age, and 55 of
them to infants under 1 year.
Scarlatina. 4 deaths only were registered as having occurred
from this disease, but 3 others took place in Hospital.
The combined numbers are three less than the average.
Looking to the exceedingly infectious nature of this
disease and the extent to which it prevailed in the adjoining
parish of Battersea, the immunity enjoyed by this subdistrict
is very remarkable.
Diphtheria. Five deaths only were recorded from this
disease, the average amount.
Fever, Enteric The deaths from Fever numbered 5 only,
and Typhus. 2 others occurred in Hospital. Conjointly
the number coincides with the average.
Small Pox. No death from this disease was registered. 3
cases, however, (two in one house), occurred in the summer,
and were removed to hospital, where one died.
The first case, which was the first recorded in the parish
since August, 1885, was that of a young woman employed
as a rag-cutter at McMurray's Paper Mills, South Street.
The second was a young woman employed as a grasspicker
at the same factory, and the third was her brother.
Prompt removal of the patients to hospital, thorough
disinfection of the houses, and re-vaccination of the
inmates and others known to have visited the houses,
prevented further extension of the disease.
As an illustration of the efficacy of Vaccination it
should be mentioned that an infant, aged 10 months, the
child of the patient first attacked was found at the time
to be unprotected by vaccination. It was at once vaccinated,
and so escaped the disease.