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1st. A rash appeared on February 3rd, and the case was
not diagnosed until as aforesaid, on February 7th. A very
regrettable incident in reference to the case is that previous
to my visiting him the patient was visited by two relations
from Fulham, both of whom contracted the disease and
died. I shall have more to report in reference to the case
at Carthew Road, and the harm that resulted from that
case not having been diagnosed until after I discovered
the case of F— D—. He had resided at the house for many
months. From the history of the case at Carthew Road
there can be no reasonable doubt that he contracted the
disease from being in company with that patient after she
had recently recovered from an attack of discrete variola.
He had been vaccinated when a child, but never re-vaccinated.
No. 28.—Case of E— A—, age 22, an ironer, employed at a laundry,
in Jeddo Road, and residing at Carthew Road. It appears
that she was first taken ill on January 16th. A rash
appeared on January 19th. The case was seen by the
patient's private medical attendant, and diagnosed as chicken
pox. The patient was ill about 10 days, at the end of which
she returned to her work at the laundry. She was visited
during her illness by the man F— D—, to whom she was
engaged to be married. The case was notified to me as
variola on February 10th, in consequence of a communication
I sent to the attendant medical practitioner, after I
had seen the girl. She had resided at the house for nine
months. There had been no previous case of illness at the
house, and no information was obtained as to how she had
contracted the disease. By reference to Case No. 27 it
will be seen that that case of small-pox occurred in consequence
of this case having been treated at home undiagnosed.
On hearing that this patient had returned to work
at the laundry, I sent word to her requesting that she
should immediately cease to do so, and I also interviewed
the proprietor of the laundry. I advised him to immediately
have all his employes re-vaccinated. The patient
complied with my request, and consented to take a series
of disinfecting baths. She had been vaccinated when a
child, but not since.'
No. 29.—Case of A— P—, age 21, an electrician out of work, and
residing at Carthew Road. He was first taken ill on
February 6th. A rash appeared on February 8th, and the
disease was diagnosed as chicken-pox by the attendant medical
practitioner (not the same practitioner who had wrongly