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an each street, in 3 streets there were 3 cases in each
street, in 5 streets there were 2 cases in each street, in
37 streets there was 1 case in each street, in 4 houses
there were 4 cases in each house, in 3 houses there were
3 cases in each house, in 7 houses there were '2 cases in
each house, and 53 cases occurred singly in different
houses. Up to the 3rd of January, 1903, l4 deaths were
registered; this gives a mortality rate on the cases reported
of 15.2 per cent. From the information obtained
it is clearly demonstrated that, allowing for the usual
'period of incubation in the disease, not one single inhabitant
of the borough contracted the complaint from
any one of the ninety-two cases that occurred, from the
moment that information of the existence of a case was
obtained by myself. This fact cannot be otherwise than
highly gratifying to your Council and highly satisfactory
to the inhabitants of the borough. The following is the information
obtained in reference to the cases. They were
all specially reported upounby me to the Public Health
•Committee:—
No. I.—Case of H— C—, age 21, no occupation, residing at Hanover
Cottages. She was first taken ill on December 25th:
A rash appeared on December 27th. The case was diagnosed
by the private medical attendant on December 29th,
and she was removed the same day by the Metropolitan
Asylums Board to Rotherhithe. She had resided at the
house for some months. There had been no previous case
of illness lately at the house, but it was stated that the
patient was visited by her brother and by the man J— P—
about a fortnight before. J— P— was removed on
December 16th from R— H—, and was then in
about the fourth day of the illness. It is probable, therefore,
that J— P— yisited this house while he was suffering
from the complaint on or about December 12th. It was
stated that he visited the house on December 15th with
H— C—, the brother of this patient.
No. 2.—Case of E— C—, age 32, a draughtsman employed at
--, Cursitor Street, Chancery Lane, and residing at
Percy Road, Shepherd's Bush. He was first taken ill on
December 24th. A rash appeared on December 29th:
The case was diagnosed by the patient's private medical
attendant on December 31st, and he was removed the