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The various Hospitals to which the cases have been
removed are as follows:—
Asylums Board Hospitals
(principally Stockwell and Tooting.)
Victoria.
St. Thomas'.
Belgrave.
Charing Cross.
St. George's.
Westminster.
Evelina and
London Fever Hospitals.
Small-Pox. A great decrease in the number of cases of this
disease during the year, twelve cases compared with
one hundred and thirteen in 1893. Twelve cases are given in Table
B., but four were not cases of true small pox but of diseases
closely resembling it, and difficult to differentiate. The remaining
eight cases were promptly removed to the Metropolitan
Asylums Board Hospital Ships, and the necessary disinfections
promptly performed, and all other precautions taken.
By the courtesy of Mr. T. Duncombe Mann, the Secretary
of the Metropolitan Asylums Board, I am enabled to give a
detailed list of the cases admitted to the Hospital Ships in
Long Reach, under the care of the Medical Superintendent,
Dr. J. F. Rickett, who has been good enough to furnish me with
the list which shows that of the eight patients received two
died insufficiently protected by vaccination, in one case forty
years of age, the scars of vaccination performed in infancy, being
less than one-third of an inch, whereas a collective area of half
an inch is the standard of efficient vaccination adopted by the
Local Government Board. In the other case, aged twenty five
years, vaccination had not been performed at all.