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to Rotherhithe. She had resided at the house for some
months. It appears that a girl residing at the house had
lately been ill with what was supposed to have been
chicken-pox. This girl had recovered and gone back to
work at a dye works. The patient R— R— had been vaccinated
when a child, but never re-vaccinated.
No i 26.—Case of A— P—, age 30, housekeeper to her father,
residing at Mardale Street. She was first taken ill on
January 27th. A rash appeared on January 30th. The
case was diagnosed by the patient's private medical
attendant on January 31st, and removed the same day by
the Metropolitan Asylums Board to Rotherhithe. She had
resided at the house for some months. No previous case
of illness had lately occurred at the house, and I was unable
to obtain any evidence as to how she had contracted the
disease. She had been vaccinated in infancy, but never
re-vaccinated.
JMo. 27.—Case of F— D—, age 25, a master jeweller, residing at
Thomas Cottages, King Street. On February 4th a
medical practitioner called upon me at my office late in
the afternoon. He informed me that he was in attendance
upon this patient, and that he had been ill for several days.
Upon his description of the illness I came to the conclusion
that most probably it was a case of variola. Owing to a
previous important engagement I was not able to go and
see the patient then, so I arranged with him that I should
send an ambulance and remove the patient to the Council's
Shelter at Brook Green Road, and that if I decided it was
a case of variola I would send the patient the following
morning to Rotherhithe, but if I otherwise decided I would
send him back to Thomas Cottages. I accordingly sent
the ambulance to the house. When I arrived at the office
the same night at 10 o'clock, I was informed that the
medical practitioner met the ambulance at the house, and
refused to allow the patient to be removed. He stated
that he had quite decided it was a case of chicken-pox,
because he had, since his interview with me. ascertained
that the' patient F—D—had been visiting another patient of
his at Carthew Road, who he had been treating for chickenpox.
The following morning I visited the patient F— D—,
and decided the case was an undoubted one of variola, and I
afterwards called upon the practitioner, and got him to
visit the case with me, and had the patient immediately
removed by the Metropolitan Asylums Board to Rotherhithe.
It appears that he was first taken ill on February