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Borough, across the river, where it was found, as a result of
enquiries made after the occurrence of the case in this Borough,
that cases of illness had occurred, thought at the time to be
Chicken-pox, but in view of the subsequent history, presumably
they also were Small-pox.
Another case of this disease was also brought to our knowledge,
in the person of a man who was travelling about the
country generally, having slept the previous night at the Rowton
House, Hammersmith (hence this notification \yas forwarded to
that Borough as being the district in which he had last resided).
Travelling thence to Greenwich, via the Tube Railway from
Shepherd's Bush to the Bank, walking thence over London
Bridge, along Tooley Street, taking the tram down Deptford
Lower Road to Deptford, calling at a Barber's on the way for a
shave, and from Deptford he came along the Greenwich Road to
the Miller Hospital, for treatment as an Out-patient. When seen
at this Institution by your Medical Officer of Health, there could
be no doubt whatever as to the character of the disease, for the
rash was then very fully developed, and great credit is due to the
Resident Medical Officers of that Institution for the supervision
they kept over the patient until such time as he could be seen
and removed. From the information one gathered, it would
appear he had contracted the disease whilst staying at a house at
Oxford, for, on communicating with the Medical Officer of Health
for that city, it was found that Small-pox had been prevalent in
the neighbourhood, if not actually in the house where this man
had lodged. He had not been vaccinated at all, and although he
suffered from a severe attack, yet he made a very satisfactory
recovery, after a somewhat prolonged stay in the Hospital.
The Vaccination Officer for the Greenwich Union has again
very kindly supplied me with the usual particulars respecting the
vaccination of children whose births were registered in his portion
of this Borough up to June, 1904, from a perusal of which it will
be readily seen that the condition of the infant population of this
District with respect to primary vaccination, is very satisfactory
indeed.