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In as much as I communicated at once with the Metropolitan
Asylums Board, being anxious to obtain speedy removal of these
cases, as soon as possible after receiving the notifications, I am not
able to make any definite statement with respect to the vaccination
marks; this matter, I have no doubt, will be commented upon in the
reports of the Medical Officers of the Small Pox Hospitals.
I must re.iterate in this report, what I stated in my last one, concerning
the immense value of the use of a tricycle in the Sanitary
Department, viz.—that it affords speedy communication with infected
premises, medical attendants, and the office of the Sanitary Authority,
thereby affecting the immediate means for the isolation of the
patient, and stopping the spread of the disease.
All the usual steps respecting the disinfection and watching of
infected premises were adopted. I informed the Clerk to the
Guardians of the cases as soon as they came to my knowledge.
Of the twenty.six cases belonging to Poplar, there were two deaths.
—A male aged 55 years, 5, Burfords Court, confluent smallpox,
vaccinated in infancy, showing one bad scar; the other fatal case
was a child aged two years, 14, Chilcot Street, confluent smallpox
and diarrhoea, unvaccinated; both these cases had been removed to
the ships.
There were four deaths among the 47 cases belonging to Bromley.
A female child aged one year, 78, Abbotts Road, confluent smallpox,
not vaccinated; male aged 40 years, 17, Gurley Street, confluent
smallpox; male aged 51 years, 52, Wyvis Street, hemorrhagic
smallpox—in these last two cases no statement was made as to
vaccination on the death return; male aged 37 years, 33 Wyvis Street,
confluent smallpox, vaccinated in infancy. All these cases died at
the Hospital Ships.
Mr. Hitchins, the Vaccination Officer, has kindly given me the
following statistics as to the number of vaccinations effected during
the year.