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No. 87.—Case of E— C—, age 19. of no occupation, residing in
Blythe Road. She was first taken ill on August 6th. A
rash appeared on August 8th. The case was diagnosed
the some day as variola by the patient's private medical
attendant and she was removed forthwith by the Metropolitan
Asylums Board to Rotherhithe. She had resided
at the house for some years. There had been no previous
case of illness lately at the house except the brother of the
patient, H— C—, who she was in contact with on July 24th,
just previous to his leaving the house before his admission
to the West London Hospital. As she was in contact with
him just 13 days before she was taken ill, and as he had
probably then developed the disease, it is probable
that she contracted the complaint from him. She had
been vaccinated in infancy, and re-vaccinated on July 28th,
but I was unable to obtain any information as to whether
her arm took.
No. 88.—Case of M— C—. age 43, a cleaner, employed at a dye
works, Latimer Road, and residing in Latimer Road. She
was first taken ill on August 8th. A rash appeared on
August 12th. The case was diagnosed as variola by the
patient's private medical attendant on the some day, and
removed forthwith by the Metropolitan Asylums Board to
Rotherhithe. She had resided at the house for several
years. There had been no previous case of illness lately at the
house, and I was unable to obtain any information as to
how she had contracted the disease. She had been vaccinated
when a child, but not since.
On Octobor 20th, a Mr. Friend called, at my office,
and stated that he had been advised to consult me, as
there were four men outside the West London Hospital
who had just come from Havre, and that they had
travelled via Calais and Dover to Charing Cross, and had
come down in a cab to Hammersmith. He also informed
me that be had been told that they had been in contact
with a man, who was suffering from small-pox, at Havre.
I at once decided to take the four men into your Council's
shelter at No. 34, Brook Green Road, so as to carefully
examine them. Upon doing so, I found that two of them
were suffering from variola in the vesicular stage, and
two had premonitory symptoms of the disease. 1 had
two of them at once removed to Rotherhithe, and I