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Causes of Death.
Zymotic Diseases.—The seven prineipal Zymotic
Diseases are Small-pox, Measles, Scarlet Fever,
Diphtheria, Whooping Cough, Fever, and Diarrhoea.
From these complaints 47 deaths occurred in the
Parish. This number is less than in the previous
year. Ten out of the 47 deaths occurred in the
Charing Cross Hospital, and they were all those of
non-parishioners.
Small-pox.—This unwelcome visitor, which every
now and then comes among us as an epidemic,
visited us as such in the year 1884, and destroyed
1,251 persons in London.
There was no death from this disease recorded in
the Parish, but two cases of residents suffering from
this complaint were removed to the Stockwell Smallpox
Hospital and there died ; one was a female, 24
years of age, who had never been vaccinated, and the
other, a lad of 17, who also had never been vaccinated.
The number of cases occurring in the
Parish which came under my notice was 21, 14 of
which were sent to the Metropolitan Asylums'
Hospitals.
If the public would more appreciate the beneficial
influence of vaccination, these visitations would, I
believe, cease to come among us. The two cases of
the persons just mentioned who had never been vaccinated,
and who died in the Stockwell Hospital, show