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The various Hospitals to which the cases have been
removed are as follows :—
Asylums Board Hospitals
Victoria Hospital.
St. Thomas' Hospital.
St. George's Hospital.
Westminster Hospital.
London Fever Hospitals, and
Wandsworth & Clapham Union Infirmary.
Small-Pox. A slight increase in the number of cases of this
disease notified during the year, twenty-one cases
compared with twelve in 1894. Twenty-one cases are given in
Table B., but one was not a case of true small pox but of a
disease closely resembling it, and difficult to differentiate. The
remaining twenty cases were promptly removed to the Metropolitan
Asylum Boards 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 twenty patients received one
died insufficiently protected by vaccination.
Pending the report of the Commission on vaccination I do
not propose to make any observations on the subject, but will
on a subsequent occasion go largely into the vaccination
question, it being one that should be put in such a form as to be
readily understood, as it is very probable that ultimately the
control of vaccination will be placed in the hands of the Local
Sanitary Authorities. I reserve further comment.