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care most of these cases came, the disease was completely
extirpated at the end of eight or nine weeks,
and so far as I know, there has been no recurrence in
any part of the Parish. Small Pox, which had prevailed
most severely in the first six months of 1877,
continued to prevail throughout the remainder of the
year, and the early part of 1878, but during the latter
part of this year it seemed to be dying out. Unfortunately,
however, late in the year, the disease, from
some unknown cause, recommenced in an epidemic
form in the adjoining Parishes of Deptford and
Greenwich, and spread therefrom to our own Parish.
The outbreak that resulted from that cause belongs,
however, historically to 1870. I may here point to
the discrepancy as regards Small Pox deaths, between
Tables I. and II., and the Table of Quarterly Returns
(Table IV.) on the one hand, and Table III. on the
other hand. In the former Tables the deaths which
actually occurred in the parish are alone given. But in
the latter Table I have incorporated all the Small Pox
deaths, 57 in number, due to the Parish, but occurring
in patients taken to the District Asylum Hospitals.
Under the head of Sanitary Works executed,
mainly by the Inspectors, between March 26, 1878,
and March 25, 1879, inclusive, I have no particular