View report page

regards any of the children appearing to be out of sorts,
also that the list of absentees should be examined, so that
these could be visited at their houses, and the reason of
their absence explained. Through these means we were
able in one instance to secure the prompt removal of a
case which otherwise would probably not have been
isolated at all.
"Henceforward up to the middle of April isolated
cases occurred, the number of notifications having at this
time reached fifty-four. On the 11th April we received
information of the death of a child three months' old from
small-pox. On visiting the house we found that there were
two more members undoubtedly suffering from small-pox in
a very slight form. On enquiry it was ascertained that
some two weeks previously another child had complained of
feeling out of sorts, and that she had some spots about her.
No notice, however, was taken of it at the time, her illness
being so slight as to call for no medical attendance. In all,
five cases could be definitely ascribed to the infection from
the first child, including the sweetheart of one of the
patients who insisted on kissing him previous to his
removal to the hospital ships. After this period until
September there were apparently no series of cases
depending one upon another, but cases occurred at intervals
all over the parish. In September there were two cases
notified in Barset Road, and as there was some reluctance
on the part of one of these patients to be removed to the
hospital we visited the house and desired to see her husband,
and on seeing him he was at once discovered to be suffering
from small-pox, although he had been at work up to the
time of our visiting the house."