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Smallpox.
Forty cases of Smallpox were notified during the year,
against 32 in 1893. A large proportion of the cases were
infected by persons suffering from an unrecognised form of
the disease. The most conspicuous instance of this occurred
in February in Margravine Ward. At the beginning of that
month two patients were notified as suffering from Smallpox,
viz.: a barmaid at the Greyhound Hotel, and a youth living
in Ancill Street, employed as a dyer ; the source of infection
could not be traced in either case, but on February 12th a
letter was received from a district visitor, stating that at
16, Greyhound Road there were several cases of sickness
which she feared might be of an infectious nature. The
house on being visited was found to be tenanted by four
families. On the first floor was a man who had evidently
just recovered from Smallpox, and stated that he returned
from Basford, in Nottinghamshire, on January Ist, was taken
ill on January 5th, and attended by a medical practitioner
from January 11th to January 25th, but since then, and even
during that time, had been about the district, and among other
places, had visited the Greyhound Hotel. From subsequent
enquiries it was ascertained that during the latter part of
December he had been employed at the Nottingham Borough
Smallpox Hospital in Basford, and, though strongly advised