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Parish, or in No. 4 Ward), Camberwell, as long as
statistics of deaths had been systematically taken,
had suffered less from small pox than probably any
other Metropolitan Parish. And indeed some twenty
years ago, when Drs. Seaton and Buchanan made
inquiries on behalf of Government into the question
of vaccination and the prevalence of small pox,
Camberwell was shewn by them to have been for
years more free from small pox than any other part
of London.
Some two or three years ago the attention of
the Sewers and Sanitary Committee was attracted
by the apparently excessive prevalence of small pox
in the part of the Parish adjoining the Deptford
Hospital (which had then for some months been
used for the reception of small pox cases), and I was
directed to write a letter to the Managers of the
Asylums' Board, placing before them such facts
as I had in support of our opinion, and requesting
them to institute some enquiry into the matter.
I received an argumentative reply, which professed
to demolish the charge conveyed in my letter;
and as about that time the epidemic in great
measure subsided, the matter, so far as we were
concerned, was allowed to rest there.