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Notifications under the Provisions of the Public
Health (London) Act, 1891. There have been notified a
total of 671 cases under the above Act, as compared with 890
cases in the previous year.
Small-pox. Only four cases of this disease were notified
throughout the year in persons residing in this Borough.
The first case was in the person of an adult male residing in
the neighbourhood of Coldbath Street. He had been vaccinated
in infancy, suffered from a mild attack, and made a good recovery.
No definite source of infection was found, the patient himself
thought that he contracted the disease by coming into contact
with sacks which had contained corn brought from India; no
corroboration of this could be made out.
The second case occurred in the person of an adult female
residing in the North-West Ward. She had been vaccinated in
infancy, suffered from a mild attack, and made a good recovery.
No definite source of infection was found in this case.
The third case occurred in the person of an adult male,
residing in the North Ward. He was a Contractor's Agent,
engaged on Railway Works on the West Coast of Africa, and
returned in the R.M.S. "Nile," on which steamer a case of
Small-pox occurred during the voyage. On the steamship's
arrival at Southampton, and in answer to the inspecting Medical
Officer's enquiries, the patient gave an incorrect address, and
accordingly when the Port Medical Officer of Health notified the
Medical Officer of Health of the District in which this address
was situated, they were unable to find the individual indicated
and we, into whose District he actually came, had no knowledge