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fell ill at the end of May, was attended by Dr. M.,
and was laid up about one month, with symptoms
indicative of typhoid; but the case was not notified.
She recovered, having been attended or visited
during her illness by several of the persons who
subsequently fell ill, in Paddington and in Kensington.
Case 2.— Augustus S—, aged 36, painter, husband of
case 1; fell ill on or about June 17: case notified
by Dr. M. as enteric fever June 22nd: was removed
to hospital June 23rd and died on the 26th.
During this man's illness, apparently on June 21st, two
of his children, Edith and Amy, were removed to a house in
Blagrove-road in this parish, where Arthur R—, their
mother's brother, with his wife and four children, occupied
three rooms. After the death of her husband Mrs. S—,
with three children, removed to a house in Kensington-parkroad,
to share with her parents and an adult sister two rooms
on the top floor.
Case 3.— Edith S—, 8 years—the first of the Kensington
cases, but infected before arrival in the
parish, fell ill at Blagrove-road, on or about July
5th, and was sent to her mother (the widow of
case 2), at Kensington-park-road.
Case 4.— Amy S—, aged 6 years, fell ill on or about
July 7th, at the Kensington-park-road house. She
and her sister Edith (case 3) were attended, on July
12th, by Dr. E., who, on 13th, notified both cases as
"continued fever, probably typhoid," They were
removed to hospital the same day. Both recovered.
Case 5.— Arthur R—, aged 7 years, cousin to cases 3
and 4, fell ill at Blagrove-road, on or about July
11th. He appears to have been seen for the first
time by Dr. E., on 18th July.