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20—Ordinary Report; Report re Diphtheria and
Scarlet-fever; Report re complaint from
Relieving Officer respecting overcrowding
and bad sanitary condition of houses in
Harford Street, Floriston Street, Greenfield
Street, and recommendations.
Feb.24—Ordinary Report; decrease in infectious
diseases; re Small-pox and Typhus Fever.
Mar. 10—Ordinary Report; Report re Small-pox cases
in several districts of this Hamlet and in a
caravan; measures adopted.
APPENDIX.
Small Pox and Vaccination.
The following interesting and important Report was
obtained at the instance of Mr. F. J. Wood, the representative
of this Hamlet at the Asylums Board, and
ordered by that Board to be printed and circulated—
The Metropolitan Asylum District,
37, Norfolk Street, Strand.
London, October 30 th, 1879.
w. c.
Sir,
The severe nature of the Small-pox Epidemic which visited
London during the autumn of 1876, and prevailed with more or
intensity during the whole of 1877 and 1878 and part of 1879,
induced the Managers of the Metropolitan Asylum District upon
whom, in their Official capacity, devolved the treatment of a large
proportion of the infected—to collect certain statistical facts which
illustrate the advantages of efficient vaccination and re-vaccination,
as evidenced by the experiences of the Medical Superintendents of
the several Small-pox Hospitals under the control of the Hoard.
The observations of these gentlemen confirm former opinions
on the subject, and establish beyond doubt the mitigating influences
in Small-pox cases of successful primary vaccination, and
the preventive powers of efficient re-vaccination.
The total number of Small-pox patients treated in the various
Hospitals of the Managers, from the outbreak of the Epidemic