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Rawstorne Street, male, aged 30. His occupation was that of a
lithographer, and he worked in Southwark Bridge Road, S.E. His
illness commenced on Wednesday, March 8th, and the characteristic
rash appeared on Saturday, March 12th. He was notified to me on
the following Monday, and at once removed to the small-pox
hospital at Dartford. He had been vaccinated in infancy
(4 marks), but not re-vaccinated. The case was one of discrete
small-pox. It appears to be clear that G. C. contracted his
infection from a married sister living in Bethnal Green, who fell ill
on February 25th, and whose rash appeared on February 28th.
But owing to some delay which apparently occurred, she was
not notified to the Bethnal Green Authorities and removed to
hospital till March 8th. She had contracted infection from
surrounding cases in that district. G. C. had visited his sister in
Bethnal Green on February 28th (during her illness), and again on
March 6th (also during her illness), and on March 8th at the time
of her removal to hospital. So that he had come into direct
contact with small-pox at its acute and most infectious stage on
three different occasions. He had not, however, taken the precaution
of being re-vaccinated, as he "does not believe in
vaccination." He was, therefore, the means of his own infection,
and he introduced the disease again into Finsbury.
Case 2.—On April 5th I received a notification of a case of
small-pox in the person of A. W. (female, aged 26), residing at 177,
Goswell Road. Her occupation was that of a kitchen-maid at an
eating-house in Barbican, City, where she was found at work on
April 5th by the City Authorities and removed to hospital by
them. Her illness commenced on March 21st and the characteristic
rash appeared on April 3rd. She had been vaccinated (three
marks) in infancy, but had not been re-vaccinated. The proprietor,
W. P., who has another establishment in Moor Lane (in this
Borough), was removed with small-pox from his home at Clapham
on Saturday, April 2nd. Two other young women from the
Barbican shop had been away from work, one since March 15th
with, so it was stated, chicken-pox, and the other eight or nine days
later, with the same complaint.