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If the mortality from small pox in London
during the year 1881 had been as large in relation
to population as that in No. 4 Ward, the deaths
from small pox would have been 9,348, instead of
only 2,376 ; and under the same conditions, those in
the Parish of Camberwell would have been 458
instead of only 190.
No. 4 Ward forms an irregular square, bounded
roughly on the North by the Grand Surrey Canal,
on the West by the Peckham branch of the Canal,
on the South by the Peckham High Road, and on
the East by the Eastern Boundary of the Parish;
its area is, I should think, about four-fifths square
mile, or about 500 acres; it contained 4,892 houses,
or thereabouts, in 1881; and I estimate its population
in that year at about one-fifth of that of
the Parish, or 37,311. The Deptford Hospital
abuts on the centre of its Eastern Boundary.
INCIDENTS OF THE SMALL POX
EPIDEMIC.
Much of the information with respect to the
general diffusion of vaccination and its efficacy in
preventing or modifying small pox, collected by