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Town Hall,
Anerley Road,
Anerley, S.E.
To the Chairman and Members of the Penge Urban District
Council.
Gentlemen,
I herewith beg to place before you the report on the
work done for the year ending the 31st December, 1902.
Inconsequence of an outbreak of Small-pox, for several
months in the early part of the year much of the ordinary
routine work had to be set aside in order that proper supervision
could be given in keeping persons under observation
who had been in contact with Small-pox cases ; it being
decided that these persons should be kept in quarantine for
14 days after the last exposure to infection. The houses
and bedding were thoroughly disinfected, the paper stripped
from walls, and all foul bedding not worth disinfecting
was burned. Every day the persons in quarantine were
visited, and directions given to prevent infection. Your
Medical Officer and Sanitary Inspector made a House to
House inspection of the infected area, and persuaded the
people to be vaccinated. In this we were greatly helped
by the Public Vaccinator, who promptly vaccinated the
people. The measures taken were certainly efficacious,
for, with one exception, every case of Small-pox came