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as is embraced in Tables X and XI. The first
column includes all the cases which were returned
for the Parish, and the second column all those
which occurred in No. 4 Ward. The third column
shows the percentage of cases furnished by No. 4
Ward.
The Tables X, XI and XII show that during
nearly the whole of the six years to which they
relate there has been a disproportionately large
prevalence of small pox in Peckham District, and
mainly in that part of it known as No. 4 Ward;
and especially they show that there has been an
increasing prevalence therein during the last three
years, and that lately, when the disease appeared
to be dying out in London and in other parts of
Camberwell, there was a sudden and alarming
increase of it in this locality. It will be observed,
however, that there was an undue prevalence of
small pox in No. 4 Ward, just before the Deptford
Hospital was opened. Deptford Hospital was
opened for the reception of small pox patients on
the 17th March, 1877, and was closed on the 31st
August of the same year. It was re-opened for
small pox cases on the 11th April, 1878, and has
continued to receive them down to the present time.
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