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is the freest intercourse between neighbours, and
where it is most difficult to enforce vaccination and
to insure isolation of the sick.
The relative prevalence of Small Pox in
Camberwell from 1871 to 1877 inclusive, may be
seen in one of the columns of Table V., appended to
this Report. This Table shows the great severity of
the disease during the whole of the year 1871 and
the first quarter of 1872. From which time up to the
end of the third quarter of 1876, there was an almost
total absence of the disease. In the last quarter of
that year the variolous deaths rose to 15; in the first
quarter of 1877 they further rose to 34; in the second
quarter they were 24; and in the third and fourth
severally they were 8. Thus 74 deaths from Small
Pox were registered during the year. But this does
not represent the total mortality due to the Parish;
for a large number of patients were removed to the
Asylum District Hospitals; and of these up to about
the end of August, when the epidemic underwent
considerable abatement, at least 43 died. The
disease prevailed chiefly in Peckham, but by no
means spared either Camberwell or St. George's.