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Saturday, the 18th June. Her illness commenced on Sunday, June
19th, the rash appeared on Tuesday, the 21st, and she was
removed to Hospital on Wednesday, the 22nd. She had been
vaccinated in infancy. In connection with this case it will be as
well to note that on May 23rd, a girl named A. V. H., residing at
Durham Row, Limehouse, sister to E. H., who was employed at
the same place as A. M. B., was removed with small-pox. E. H.
was then kept from work, and on the 2nd of June she obtained a
medical certificate that she could return to her work, which she
did on the 6th June, and remained there for three days, but on the
9th June she developed small-pox, and was removed to hospital on
the 10th. She worked on the same floor as A. M. B., and
therefore, this case is distinctly attributable to the fact that E. H.
returned to work too soon.
Case 6.—On Sunday night, June 26th, Chief Inspector Green had
the body of an infant removed to the Warwick Place Mortuary as
having died suddenly from some unknown cause. The body was
that of a child, I. F. D., aged five months, of 41, York Road.
On Monday morning I received a note from the medical man
who had seen the child on Sunday before death, asking me to
examine the body and see if the case was one of small-pox.
Accordingly I visited the mortuary and made an examination of
the body, and formed the opinion that the case was one of smallpox.
Dr. Wanklyn, the Small-pox Specialist to the London County
Council, also saw the body and arrived at the same opinion. I
subsequently visited the house and found that this child had been
sick and ailing on Saturday, that a rash had appeared on Sunday,
that there had been some pain and fever, and that the child
died on Sunday night. The child was unvaccinated. From
enquiries I think there is little doubt that this child contracted
infection from F. M. L., of 53, York Road, the case of small-pox
removed on June 17th. I made arrangements for immediate burial
after disinfection of the body. The Vaccination Officer visited the
premises and arranged for vaccination, and more than a dozen
persons submitted to re-vaccination. The usual steps as to
disinfection were properly carried out.