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small-pox, and was still in an infectious condition;
so I got her away to hospital in the afternoon. On
March 10th, I saw with a neighbouring doctor, Amelia
Sherwin, aged 47, who was suffering from small-pox
and was removed the same morning. She resided at 69
Finnis Street; the back windows of this flat look into
those of the Corfield Street block, and the infection may
have been conveyed through the air. Other cases now
commenced to crop up at a distance. Francis Mudie,
an unvaccinated child aged fourteen months, was
removed from 105 Bethnal Green Road, another unvaccinated
child from Holmes Avenue, and on the 14th
Matilda Stevens, from 398 Corfield Street, and Hannah
Quilter from 360; both these women resided in the
infected block, and Hannah Quilter had attended the
funeral party at Hart's. Mr. Quilter subsequently
sickened and was removed. On March 16th, Charles
Smith, an employe of the undertaker who had conducted
Hart's funeral, was found to be suffering from smallpox
and was removed. On March 16th, John Turvey
of 79 Somerford Street (who had been a patient in the
London Hospital for three weeks) was somewhat tardily
discovered to be suffering from small-pox, and was
removed to Dartford. Some friends who visited him
in the hospital report seeing a rash on Turvey's face on
March 9th, a week before his removal, but beyond this
statement I have no information. On the same day
(16th) Samuel Bouvier of 6 Thurlow Place, was found
to be suffering from small-pox, he was removed but
died the same day; a fortnight previously he had
visited his brother Edward, who was an in-patient at
the London Hospital and supposed to be suffering from