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had resided at the house for some months. No previous case
of illness had lately occurred at the house, and no information
was obtained as to how he had contracted the disease.
A liftman on the Central London Railway coming in contact
with such an enormous number of persons would run
considerable risk of contracting the disease. No information
as to vaccination was obtained.
No. 10.--Case of A—J—B—, age 30, a managing clerk, employed
at a poultry dealers, Smithfield Market, and residing
at Percy Road, was first taken ill on January 7th. A rash
appeared on January 10th. The case was diagnosed on
January 13th by the patient's private medical attendant,
and removed the same day by the Metropolitan Asylums
Board to Rotherhithe. He had resided at the house for
some months. No previous case of illness had lately
occurred at the house, and no information was obtained
as to how he had contracted the disease. He had been
vaccinated in infancy, but not re-vaccinated.
No. 17.—Case of A—P—, age 18, a typewriter, employed at Messrs.
, Princes Street, and residing at Wood Lane. She was
first taken ill on January (ith. A rash appeared on January
8th. and the case was diagnosed on January 13th, and notified
to me on January 14th. The parents refused an offer to
have the patient removed to a hospital, and as there was
moderately efficient accommodation for treatment and
isolation at the house, I did not deem it desirable to try
and enforce removal. The patient had resided at the
house for some months. There had been no previous case
of illness lately at the house, and no information as to how
the patient had contracted the disease was obtainable.
She had been vaccinated in infancy, but not since.
No. 18.—Case of W— W—, age 25, a plumber, employed and
residing at Banim Street. He was first taken'ill on January
6th. A rash appeared on January 11th. The case was
diagnosed as variola by the patient's private medical
attendant on January 15th, and removed the same day
by the Metropolitan Asylums Board to Rotherhithe.
He had only just come to reside at the house. It
appears that on December 24th he visited at — West
Street, Warminster, Wiltshire, where his father had just
died of small-pox. His brother Henry was also suffering
from small-pox at the same address at the time of his
visit. It is therefore most probable that he contracted
the disease at his father's house, which he visited just 13
days before he was taken ill. He had been vaccinated
when a child, but not since.