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year would be immediately available should the Local Government
Board find it necessary, by the issue of their "Orders,"'
to bring it into operation. With regard to local provision of
hospital accommodation, it may be mentioned that the Guardians
of this Parish hold themselves engaged to put sixty beds at the
disposal of the Asylums Board in case of need—thirty at the
infirmary in Marloes Road and thirty at the able-bodied workhouse,
Mary Place, in the "Potteries"—an amount of accommodation
which, to judge from past experience, would be ample for
the supply of our wants in the (as I think improbable) event of
an epidemic.
SMALL-POX.
One hundred and eighty cases of small-pox were recorded in
1885 as compared with 177 in 1884, viz.-79 in North
Kensington and 101 in South Kensington, the dividing line
running along the centre of Uxbridge Road, and the population of
each (Parliamentary) Division being, in round numbers, 86,000.
The deaths were 25, viz., 14 of residents in the Town sub-district
and 11 of residents in the Brompton sub-district. Twenty-two of
the deaths took place in the hospitals, in or out of London, of the
Asylums Board, to which 152 cases (69 out of 79 in North
Kensington and 83 out of 101 in South Kensington) were removed.
Ten cases in North Kensington and 18 in South Kensington were
treated at home—3 of them to a fatal issue—irrespective of
concealed and unrecognised cases, which have so much to do with
the spread of disease. As usual many of the South Kensington
patients were domestic servants—28 out of 101, a smaller proportion
than usual; 24 of them were females from 22 houses.
From each of two houses two servants were removed, the nature of
the illness in the primary cases having been unrecognised. The
" upper classes," as in previous years, suffered little personally,
their immunity, doubtless, being the result of attention to
vaccination. Twenty-seven of the cases were secondary, i.e., they
were consequent on previous illness in the same houses, and
7 were imported from oilier districts. Three persons walked to the
Western Hospital. Of the 79 cases in North Kensington 25 were