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As the 125 deaths include those of all the inhabitants, a
comparison between the percentages of houses and of deaths
affords a fairly reliable estimate of the prevalence of the disease
in different parts of the district, although it is evident from the
percentages of cases in the different radii that the disease was
more fatal amongst the inhabitants of the quarter-mile radius
than elsewhere. Thus, there were 22.9 per cent. of the total
oases and 33.6 per cent. of the total deaths amongst its
inhabitants. The contrast between 336 per cent. of all the
deaths from small-pox, and 22.9 per cent. of the cases, against
6.1 per cent. of the whole number of houses, is very marked,
and fully bears out the conclusions previously drawn from the
deaths during 1871-80. The table also shows that 33.9 per
cent. of all the cases reported to me, and 35.2 per cent. of all
the deaths, occurred between the quarter and half-mile radii,
whilst the percentage of houses was only 14.7. On the other
hand, there were 43.2 per cent. of cases reported, and 31.2 per
cent. of deaths, in the rest of the district, which contained 76.9
per cent. of all the houses. There were also 68.8 per cent. of
the deaths in the space between the hospital and the half-mile
radius. As similar results were obtained by the discussion of