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This is the reason that Small Pox does not appear
in the tables of mortality, from Zymotic Diseases,
for although we have had this disease prevailing to
a considerable extent, the fatal cases have occurred
at the Small Pox Hospital, which is also situated in
the Parish of Islington, where the deaths are
registered.
Hooping Cough.
Of the individual diseases of which the Zymotic
group is composed, Hooping Cough is answerable
for the largest amount of mortality. There is no
question about the communicability of this disease,
and the power which a properly instructed community
has in counteracting its presence and fatal
effects. As long, however, as people consider it a
necessary evil, and with no precautions to prevent
it, Hooping Cough will spread from child to child,
and annually present its victims on that altar of
Moloch which our carelessness and ignorance have
erected.
Scarlet Fever.
The next fatal disease on our list is Scarlet
Fever. It killed 39 children in our Parish during
the last year, and laid on beds of sickness at least