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CONTENTS.
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Prefatory Remarks 5
Death Rate, (1873.6) Parochial and Metropolitan 5
Registration ("Kensington") District and Registration Sub-
districts, what they comprise 6
Wards, division of Kensington into (foot note) 6
Sub-districts (registration) relative rate of mortality in the 7
„ Population of the 7
Sexes, relative rate of mortality in the 7
Zymotic Diseases, general remarks on the mortality from 8
„ „ Measles, epidemic of 8
„ „ Small Pox „ 8
„ „ Epidemic and Epizootic 8
Hospital accommodation for the non-pauper infections sick 10
„ „ (local) Sanitary authorities urged by
Local Government Board to provide 10
„ „ In-operative provision of Poor Law
Amendment Act, 1876, in relation to 11
„ „ Action of the Metropolitan Asylum's
Board in relation to 12—18
„ „ Views of the Vestry (13), of Medical
Officer (14), and of Society of Medical
Officers of Health in relation to 17
„ „ Scheme for providing "Public Health
(Metropolis) Bill, 1877" 19
Small Pox, history of the epidemic (1876-77) 21—33
„ how spread 22
„ Comparison between the epidemics of 1871-2 and
1876-7 23
„ Illustrative cases and outbreaks of 23 —30
„ neglect of vaccination, a principal cause of severe
outbreak of 30
„ rate of mortality from, in vaccinated and
cinated persons 31
Vaccination, remarks by Registrar-General, on protective
influence of 31
Unvaccinated children, 350 discovered by a house to house
visitation 31
Small Pox, salient statistical results of the epidemic of 32
"Fever," remarks on the mortality from 33
„ Enteric or Typhoid, erroneous statement that it is
"chronic in South Kensington," refuted 33
Zymotic Diseases, erroneous statement that "the death rate
from, in South Kensington is steadily increasing,"
refuted 35