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SMALL POX.
Three deaths are alone reported during 1886. The deaths
occurrred at the Hospitals of the Asylums Board, but the
cases had previously been removed from the Lambeth
Workhouse Infirmary, in which place they probably had
been infected from visitors to the wards.
The following table shows the number of Small Pox cases
removed to the Hospitals of the Asylums Board during the
last ten 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 „
1886 7 — „
Making a total during the nine years of 2320, of which 118
were paupers, or,
Non-paupers 95.2 per cent.
Paupers 4.8 per cent.