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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
All the subsequent cases occurred on or about the fourteenth
day of exposure to infection, and in no instance could the infection
have been due to any delay or neglect in disinfection.
A few contacts were forwarded by Medical Officers of Health
of other Boroughs in London, and these were visited and vaccination
advised.
The names and addresses of 23 contacts belonging to other
Boroughs were forwarded to the Medical Officer of Health of the
respective Boroughs.
It is only necessary to call special attention to the cases
occurring in Letch worth Street, Tooting, and Clifton Street,
Clapham.
In the Letchworth Street cases all the contacts refused revaccination,
and all were attacked by the disease. In the cases in
Clifton Street the case returned from the South Wharf as net
being Small-pox was, in my opinion, the cause of the other cases,
three of which were unrecognised and not notified. The only one
of the family who escaped was a vaccinated infant, and this infant
slept in the same room as the two cases last notified.
Shelters.
The two shelters at Putney and Balham again proved of
great service on the few occasions it was found necessary to utilise
them.
The Putney Shelter was used on four occasions by seven
adults and six children for four nights, and the Balham Shelter on
one occasion by one adult for three nights.
VACCINATION.
Table XX. is taken from the official returns of the Vaccination
Officers to the Guardians for the year 1902. It shows the
number of births, the number of children successfully vaccinated
for the whole Borough as well as for the separate sub-districts.
Streatham, Balham, and Tooting are included under the heading
of Streatham.