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amended diagnoses. The certificates relate to a total of 923
persons. Table III. in the Appendix indicates the number of
persons suffering from each disease, it also shows the sub-districts
in which they had resided, and the number (656) of those
removed to hospital.
SMALL-POX.
(Deaths, 0. Decennial average, 8.)
Three persons were reported to be suffering from small-pox
and were removed to hospital; only one was retained; the other
two were sent back as not being cases of small-pox. No death
was registered under this disease.
The one case of true small-pox was A. F., a lad aged eighteen
years, employed at the London Small Arms Manufactory, and
residing at 6, Chisenhale Road. He attended as an out-patient
at the Victoria Park Chest Hospital on May 2nd with a high
temperature and a measly rash all over his body. The case was
diagnosed by the Physician of the day as Typhus Fever, and the
lad was sent to Homerton, where Dr. Goodall found the rash to
be prodromal of small-pox, and promptly transferred the patient
to the Small-Pox Hospital. He remained there until he was
discharged on June 17th. Upon enquiry it was ascertained that
A. F. had only resided at Chisenhale Road since April 21st,
previously to which he had lived at 99, Ford Road, Poplar,
whence several cases of small-pox had been removed. Of the
other two reported cases, one was chicken-pox and the other was
diphtheria.
With reference to the removal of young infants suffering from
small-pox to hospital, difficulties have occasionally arisen by
reason of the mother refusing to be parted from her suckling
infant. She has therefore been occasionally permitted to
accompany her child to the hospital. The following communication
refers to this matter:—