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four weeks, 8 in North Kensington, and 2 in South Kensington;
3 of the eases, moreover, were in houses where the disease had
previously existed. The cases in the hospitals, which on July 12th
were 1,242, had declined to 892 on August 9th. The Western
Hospital, which contained 16 patients on the 1st August, admitted
37 cases in the four weeks ending on that day: 6 patients died,
2 were discharged recovered, and 44 were transferred to the Ship
Hospitals or the Camp in the same period of four weeks.
In the following month, (August 10th—September 6th), there
were only 2 cases, both in North Kensington. The cases in the
Asylums Board Hospitals had further fallen on September 6th to
530. During the four weeks ended August 29th, the Western
Hospital received 14 patients; 4 were discharged recovered, 23 were
transferred to the Ship Hospitals or the Camp, only 3 remaining
under treatment on the 29th August.
In the next ensuing month, (September 7th—October 4th),
small-pox began again to increase, but slowly at first, in the
Metropolis. On October 4th the number of cases in the hospitals,
which had fallen in eleven weeks from 1,368 to 471, had risen again
to 533, the bulk of the cases, however, being at the Darenth Camp,
where more than 3,000 cases in all—and more than 1,000 at one
time—had been treated since March, principally in the
convalescent stage. The Western Hospital received 5 cases only
in the four weeks ended September 26th. Seven cases occurred
in the Parish during the four weeks, 4 in North Kensington, and 3
in South Kensington.
In the four weeks, October 5tli—November 1st, the Kensington
cases were again 7, only 2 of them occurring in South
Kensington; 2 of the cases, moreover, were imported. On
November 1st, there were 580 patients in the Board's Hospitals.
The Western Hospital admitted 16 patients in four weeks to
October 24th, 7 patients remaining under treatment at that date.
At this time the Asylums Board had ceased to publish returns
of cases admitted into their hospitals from single parishes and
unions, and therefore I have no information as to the parishes, etc.,
from which patients were admitted at the Western Hospital.