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in the Metropolis, and had occasioned 735 deaths; that
in Paddington it had caused 2 deaths, and that 25
patients were sent to the Hospitals, viz., 4 to the
Small pox and Vaccination Hospital at Highgate, and
21 to the Hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylum Board.
As one of the two deaths above referred to took place
on the 9th November, and the other on the 19th
December, and 20 of the 25 patients were sent to
the Hospitals subsequently to the 1st of November,
the disease cannot be said to have begun to spread
epidemically in Paddington before the end of October.
As has been remarked in the case of other epidemics,
Paddington enjoyed comparative immunity from the
disease for some time after it had prevailed extensively
in other parts of London.
In the course of the year under review (1877), Small
pox caused in the Metropolis 2,544 deaths. Of the 15
deaths in Paddington, 14 were registered in St. Mary's
sub-district, and 1 in St. John's. 164 patients, 133
from St. Mary's and 31 from St. John's, were conveyed
to the Hospitals, viz., 17 to Highgate, 7 to the Hospital
within the grounds attached to the Paddington
Workhouse, and 147 to one or other of the Asylum
Hospitals at Fulham, Hampstead, Homerton, and
Stockwell.
The subjoined table supplies some indications of
the progress and fluctuations of the disease in the two