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This child was said by the mother to be suffering- from chicken-pox
on the authority of her medical attendant, who had also advised her
the child could, without danger, attend the party.
I immediately visited 21, Bentham Road, and saw Mrs. We., who
corroborated the statement as to having a party at her house on the
days stated, and of the child A.Wi., being present with spots on
his body. She further stated that nine children lived in the house
with herself and her husband; that one of her sons was at that time
ill with influenza. I examined him and found the disease to be
small-pox. (This boy was immediately removed to hospital). She
further informed me that the following persons were at the abovementioned
party:—
Mr. and Mrs. We. and nine children living at 21, Bentham
Road;
A married daughter of above and husband with two children
from Mile End;
Mr. and Mrs. Wi. and three children from 52, Churchill Boad,
Hackney;
E. Wi., brother of above, and a young "woman from Essex
Street, Kingsland;
F. B.. from Page Street, Westminster;
N. II., from Grandsden Avenue, Hackney.
This makes a total of 24 persons who had been exposed to infection
in this house, eight rooms, from the morning of Christmas Day until
the end of Boxing Day.
I also visited the Wi. family at 52, Churchill Boad, and found the
father, mother and two children with the small-pox eruption on
them, well marked, and the boy Arthur, who was said to have had
chicken-pox, marked with scars and a few crusts of eruption of
undoubted small-pox. The whole family were immediately sent off
to hospital.