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(A) The name of the school attended by children of the house was obtained
from the parents, and the head teacher immediately communicated with. In
order to guard against inaccurate information in this respect a private circular
was despatched daily to the head teacher of all schools in the district giving
particulars of cases notified.
(I) Contacts were kept under observation for sixteen days, and employeis of
persons exposed to infection were informed of the fact.
(m) Information was sent to Medical Officers of other Districts where any of
their residents had been in contact with infected persons in Lewisham. Similar
action was taken by Medical Officers of Health with respect to the contact of
any resident of Lewisham in outside districts. On the receipt of such information
the persons mentioned were advised re-vaccination, and were kept under
observation.
I was prepared at any hour to visit suspected cases when
desired by the various Medical Practitioners of the Borough.
My opinion was invited in the majority of cases detailed in this
report, and in a much greater number of cases not Small Pox,
in which the medical attendant had good grounds for suspicion.
In order to render the report in regard to Small Pox
complete, brief details of the six cases of 1901 are repeated, in
addition to the particulars of cases occurring during 1902.
SMALL POX CASES, 1901.
*Case A. —H. C., male, aged 15. Vaccinated. Sickened
at 51, Brownhill road. Removed to Hospital September 29th.
Recovered.
Case B.—J. G., male, aged 22. Unvaccinated. The patient
had only resided in the Borough three days; he previously lived
in Camberwell. Fourteen days prior to his illness he visited his
brother at the Small Pox Hospital. He was removed to Hospital
from 62, Devonshire Road, October 14th. Refused vaccination
at Metropolitan Asylums Board Hospital. Recovered.