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ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
The number of deaths from the seven principal
zymotic diseases, which is the best indication of the
healthiness of a community, notwithstanding the increase
of the population, exceeded by three only the
number of deaths from the same diseases in the year
1875. Nevertheless, these diseases furnished nearly
one-sixth of the total deaths from all causes.
As in the parish only two deaths occurred from
small-pox in the course of the year under review,
although the disease was extensively prevalent in other
parts of the metropolis, and occasioned 735 deaths,
I defer for the present adding anything to the observations
which appeared in my letters to "The Times"
of the 19th January and 5th April, 1877, upon this
and the cognate subject of hospital accommodation at
Highgate. To prevent the spread of the disease I
urged the Inspectors to spare no effort to get every case
which came to their knowledge removed to the hospitals
with as little delay as possible. From this parish, 4
patients were sent to the Smallpox and Vaccination
Hospital at Highgate, and 21 to the Hospitals of the
Metropolitan Asylums Board, 3 being conveyed to