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(103 strangers), were registered; 231, (66 strangers), in the
September quarter; 242, (74 strangers), in the December
quarter; and 356, (82 strangers), in the March quarter.
329 died from Small Pox (191 stranger
1G3 „ Measles 1 „
132 „ Scarlet Fever 45 „
39 „ Diphtheria 3 „
200 „ Whooping Cough 0 „
41 ,, Typhus Fever 35 „
96 „ Enteric 49 „
21 „ Simple Continued 0 „
110 ,, Diarrhœa 1 „
1131 325
The mortality from Small Pox was highest in the June quarter
of the year 1877; in the September quarter it decreased
considerably; it rose again, however, in the December quarter,
and showed a still further increase for the quarter ending
March. The greatest increase was in the first half of the latter
quarter, the disease, as shown by the number of cases reported,
declining rapidly towards the end.
In Table II. will be found the number of deaths from Small
Pox in each Sub-District. In the Brixton Sub-District, of tho
290 deaths recorded, 190 were strangers.
Tho deaths from Measles in tho four quarters of the year
were respectively 68, 25, 31 and 39.
An unusual fatality from Measles occurred in tho month of
January in Reedworth Street, Kennington Road. The house in
which it took place was one of a row of new six-roomed houses
with basements. It was occupied by two families—one with
six children, and tho other with ono only. Tho rooms in the
basement and the two upper bed-rooms wero occupied by the
former, and the parlours on the ground floor by the latter. All
tho children belonging to both families sickened on about the
same day, and five—aged respectively 9, 6, 4, and 2 years, and
an infant a few months old—died within a week. Through the