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SANITARY OFFICES,
Town Hall, Hackney.
April 26th, 1877.
To the Board of Works for the Hackney District.
Gentlemen,
The chief sanitary event in the District for the year,
1876, was the outbreak of Small Pox, which was by no means
expected, except by those who had carefully examined the death
rates from this disease in the years 1873, 1874, and 1875; and
although the epidemic might fairly have been looked for, yet,
until the first week of November, it could scarcely have been
expected that it would be so severe.
The first case reported to me in Hackney was on the 24th
of July, which occurred in a servant, and was contracted outside
the district. The second case happened in Banbury Terrace,
nearly a quarter of a mile away from the first, both being in
South Hackney. The next was at Upper Clapton, also a
servant, on September 16th; the next on the 18th, in Mare
Street; then on the 26th, in Brooksby's Walk; on October 4th,
in Navarino Road, Daiston; and on the 6 th, when the epidemic
commenced—eases occurred in Homerton, South Hackney, and
Kingsland. During the remainder of the month of October