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C to H, inclusive. Tables A and B show at a glance the admissions
at each hospital, and the cases remaining at each hospital
at the end of the successive fortnightly periods, while Tables C
to H show the parishes and unions from which patients were
admitted, at each of the hospitals, irrespective of those admitted
direct at the Ships, viz., 791 between June and September. Table
K shows the parishes and unions from which the cases
"transferred" to the Ships between February and June had
been originally removed to the several hospitals.]
Small-pox, as the Tables show, continued to be severely
epidemic at Hackney, Islington, Shoreditch, and Bethnal Green,
for many weeks, before there was any material spread to the
Western, Central, and Southern districts. It appears, moreover,
that out of 3,571 cases admitted at the London hospitals between
November, 1883, and September, 1884, some 1,747 came from
those four unions and parishes, this number being, of course,
irrespective of home-treated cases, and also of cases removed, in
and after June, "direct" to the Hospital Ships. During the same
eleven months (November, 1883—September, 1884), the parishes
comprised in the Borough of Chelsea (Kensington, Chelsea,
Fulham and Hammersmith) sent 183 cases into the hospitals, 147 of
them to the Western Hospital at Fulham; Lambeth sent 123
cases, all but 4 of them to the South-Western Hospital within its
own boundaries; Camberwell 93, and Greenwich 85, all of them,
practically, to the South-Eastern Hospital, which, adjacent to
Camberwell, is situated in the Deptford section of the Greenwich
district. St. Pancras, which contains the Highgate Hospital,
sent 114 patients to hospitals, including 97. to the North-Western
Hospital just outside its boundaries in Hampstead parish;
Holborn sent 119 patients to hospitals, St. George's-in-the-East
107, and Mile End Old Town 179—there being no hospital in
in these parishes; Poplar, Stepney, and Whitechapel, among
Eastern parishes having no hospital within their boundaries, sent
to the hospitals 103, 91, and 84 cases respectively. Marylebone
sent 80 cases and Hampstead 60,—59 of them to the North-Western
Hospital. These numbers it will be understood are irrespective