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Case 13.—On Monday, July 25th, at 10.40 a.m., I received
notification (by special messenger from St. Bartholomew's Hospital)
of a case of small-pox in the person of R. R. (male, aged 56),
residing at 6, Banner Street. This patient, who was employed by
the Church Army, and had been living at the home for the Houseless
Poor, went to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, and was there seen
by Dr. Turner, of South Wharf (who was at the hospital at the
time), and was sent by him to Joyce Green Hospital. I was unable
to obtain (in the patient's absence) any direct evidence as to source
of infection, but learned that he had been engaged in delivering
hand-bills in the neighbourhood of Walworth and other parts of
London, and sickened with small-pox on July 18th, the rash
appearing on July 22nd. He had been vaccinated in infancy (four
marks).