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The injurious influence of the Hospital is however
shewn perhaps most remarkably during times
at which the disease has been little prevalent in
London, and in which its prevalence even in No. 4
Ward has not been sufficient to excite attention.
For a careful examination of the tables will show
that it is specially at such times that the proportion
of cases in No. 4 Ward to those in other parts of
the Parish has been greatest.
The remarks which I now append, and the
tables which accompany them, are mainly a
reproduction of a memorandum which I prepared
and laid before the Vestry early in the present
year, and which also I furnished to the Royal
Commission. I have excluded however from it a
few statistics which I have given at greater length
in an earlier part of this report; and I have added
to it a table which I laid before the Vestry on
another occasion, showing the number of cases
of small pox which had come under our cognizance
from the year 1876, onwards; and further 1
have continued all these tables to the end of
March, 1882, in order to shew the subsequent
course of an outbreak of small pox, which began
late in 1881, and at the end of the year threatened
to become severe beyond all precedent.