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VACCINATION.
Of the 509 cases of Small Pox, 466 were removed to
Hospital, leaving 43 to be treated at home; in these cases
isolation was efficiently carried out.
22 paupers were reported to have been removed to the
Hospital, the remaining 487 cases belonging to the middle
and working classes.
The following table shows the number of Small Pox cases
removed to the Hospitals of the Asylums Board during the
last nine years, and the proportion of paupers to the whole
number admitted:—
1877
26 Paupers
577 Non-Paupers
1878
20 „
277 „
1879
1 „
77 „
1880
1 „
80 „
1881
14 „
440 „
1882
24 „
109 „
1883
0 „
39 „
1884
3 „
207 „
1885
22 „
396 „
Making a total during the nine years of 2313, of which 111
were paupers, or,
Non-paupers 95.2 per cent.
Paupers 4.8 per cent.
The deaths registered from Small Pox in Lambeth numbered
83, of these, 35 were strangers in the Stockwell
Hospital; deducting these and adding the deaths of 37
parishioner who died on board the Hospital Ships the
total would be 85.
In the Metropolis in 1881, 2367 persons died from Small
Pox; in 1882, 431 persons died; and in 1883 the number fell
to 134; and in 1884 the number rose to 913; and in 1885, 899
persons died.