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Asylums Board Hospitals (chiefly Stockwell and Tooting
Hospitals), St. George's, St. Thomas', Westminster,
St. Bartholomew's, Belgrave, King's College, the.
Bolingbroke and the London Fever Hospitals.
Small A somewhat severe outbreak of this disease
Pox.
occurred during the year, chiefly in the summer
months. In a large proportion of the cases tramps were
definitely ascertained to be the medium of infection.
By the courtesy of Mr. T. Duncombe Mann, the Secretary
of the Metropolitan Asylums Board, and the very kind assistance
of Dr. J. F. Rickett, the Medical Superintendent of the
Hospital Ships at Long Reach, I am able to present a complete
list of cases admitted thence from Battersea. In all eighty-two
cases were admitted to the Ships, with eleven deaths, all the
fatal cases occurring in persons unprotected by vaccination.
Full particulars of the different cases will be found in the
return, more especially as to the condition as to vaccination
found on admission. One death occurred from small pox in the
Highgate Hospital.
In Table B the number of cases of small pox notified was
one hundred and thirteen. A few of these were notified by more
than one practitioner. Some were really cases of chicken pox
and other affections which strongly resemble small pox, and are
in certain stages difficult to differentiate from that disease, even
by the most experienced observers. The same table shews that
eighty-eight cases were sent to hospital. Eighty-three were
received therein and the five others returned as not being cases
of true small pox.