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the death-rate being, as is shown in Table IV., 21
per 1,000 of the population, whereas in London it
was 3.7. The above figures (228) represent all the
deaths from those diseases which actually occurred
in the Parish, no cognizance being taken of the cases
of infectious disease which were removed to hospitals
beyond its limits.
Small-pox.
From small-pox there were 475 deaths in London,
as compared with 450 in 1879. In January, 1880,
the disease was inconsiderable in amount; in March
the number of cases under treatment in the hospitals
of the Metropolitan Asylums Board had more than
doubled; in the beginning of July it had still further
increased; during the next three months the disease
rapidly declined, and in October the cases only
slightly exceeded in point of number those at the
commencement of the year. In November, in the
East of London, particularly in Bethnal Green,
whence it first spread in the years 1870-72, the
disease greatly increased, and by the end of the year
had acquired the proportions of an epidemic, which
extended its baleful influence during the earlier
months of the present year.
From small-pox throughout the year no death