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CASES OF ILLNESS REPORTED AS DUE TO INFECTIOUS
DISEASE.
There were, omitting chicken-pox and phthisis, 653
cases reported as due to notifiable infectious diseases
in this Borough against 779 in the previous year.
There were also 5 cases of chicken.pox, and 143 cases
of phthisis notified, which diseases were not notifiable
until in the previous year. Chicken.pox was made
notifiable on February 7th, 1902, to January 7th, 1903,
and phthisis, voluntary notifiable from April 7th, 1902.
There were also reported 368 cases of infectious diseases
that were not notifiable, against 328 in the previous
year, 99 of these were chicken.pox, 137 measles, and
132 whooping cough.
SMALL.POX.
Six cases were reported as due to small.pox, against
92 cases iu the previous year. The 6 cases reported
last year occurred in 6 streets in 6 houses. No death
was registered. In no case did the disease spread from
the moment that information was obtained in your
Public Health Department. The following is the
information obtained in reference to the cases. They
were all specially reported on by me to the Public
Health Committee:—
No. 1.—The case of A— W— G—, aged 45, a potman employed
and residing at a public.house in King Street.
It appears that he was first taken ill on Thursday, May
7th, when he complained of back.ache and feverishness.
On the same day he noticed a rash upon himself. He
kept at his work until Monday, 11th May, when he
applied at the West London Hospital for advice. He
was detained there, and the illness was diagnosed as
variola, and he was at once removed by the Metropolitan
Asylums Board to Rotherhithe. He had resided
at the house for nine weeks. There had been no case of
illness lately at the house. It also appears that the
patient had visited Kingston on Thursday, April 23rd,
but although several cases of small.pox had previously
occurred there, he was not aware that he had been exposed
to infection. He had been vaccinated when a
child, but not since.