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PREVALENCE OF SMALL POX IN
CAMBERWELL.
There was one important exception to the
generally satisfactory condition of the Parish, as
shewn in the Mortuary tables, namely, the continued
prevalence of small pox in it, and mainly in that
part which adjoins the Deptford Fever Hospital—
a prevalence altogether out of proportion to that
presented either by London as a whole, or by any
other Metropolitan Parish. This undue prevalence,
which has been manifested for several years past,
and seemed to have a direct connection with the
establishment of a large Small Pox Hospital on the
borders of the Parish, has necessarily been a source
of great anxiety to the Vestry, and an occasion
of much alarm to the inhabitants of the Old Kent
Road, and of its neighbourhood.
There was all the more reason for dissatisfaction,
that, previous to the small pox epidemic of
1871 (which affected all London, and from which
Camberwell, although it suffered largely, suffered
in no greater proportion than the rest of the Metropolis,
and during which no special incidence of the
disease was manifested in the Eastern part of the