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former your by year since the constitution of the
Vestry, the latter quarter by quarter during the last
eight years. From these it will be seen that Hooping
Cough, which was so highly fatal in 1878, began to
get epidemic in the last quarter of 1877, that it
attained its highest point in the second quarter of
of 1878, and that in the last quarter of that year it
had undergone very considerable diminution; that
Measles was specially fatal during the last quarter of
1877, and the first of 1878, and that in the third
quarter absolutely no death was referred to this
affection. As regards Fever, nothing of particular
importance is shewn by the Mortuary Tables But it
is important to record the fact that during the first
three months of the year an outbreak of true Typhus
occurred in Stockwell street, a locality occupied by
the labouring class, and in large measure by Irish;
and that a few isolated cases referable to infection
from this locality were met with about the same time
in the surrounding neighbourhood. This local out-
break was very difficult to deal with, partly from the
difficulty of persuading the friends to allow the sick
to be taken to hospital, partly from the densely populated
character of the street, and partly from the
habits of the population. But with the valuable
assistance of Messrs. Simpson and Smith, under whose