Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the vital and sanitary statistics of the Borough of Lambeth during the year 1902
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(126) Rose B., aged 20 years, vaccinated, of 91, Oakley Street
(lodgings), sickened February 21st, 1902, and was removed to Hospital
on February 24th, 1902. 4 other inmates (3 adults and 1 child),
cinated, escaped. Source of infection was not discovered.
(127) Louie C., aged 44 years, vaccinated, of 137, Lower Kennington
Lane, sickened February 18th, 1902, and was removed from her
ings to Hospital on February 24th, 1902 Her husband (re-vaccinated)
escaped. Source of infection was not traced.
(128) Charles E., aged 58 years, a tramp, sickened at Rowton House,
Vauxhall, on F'ebruary 20th, 1902, and was removed on February 24th,
1902, to Hospital, where he died on March 1st, 1902.
(129) Robert W. B., aged 36 years, unvaccinated, contracted Smallpox
at his work (labourer at large flour mills), and sickened February
22nd, 1801, being on February 25th, 1902, removed to Hospital, where
he died on March 3rd, 1902. No other case occurred amongst the
inmates (1 adult, re-vaccinated, and 4 vaccinated children under 12
years of age).
130 and 131) Cissy H., aged 2 years, unvaccinated, and Anna H., aged
9 years, vaccinated, caught Smallpox from her mother, Fanny H., who
sickened on February 10th, 1902, and was removed to Hospital on
February 13th, 1902, from a house in Westminster. The rest of the
family, consisting of 1 adult (re-vaccinated and 4 children under 12
years of age (1 unvaccinated and 3 vaccinated), moved to 13, College
Street, Belvedere Road, where Cissy and Annie sickened on February
23rd and March 1st, 1902, and were removed to Hospital on February
25th and March 5th, 1902, respectively.
(132 and 133) At 36 Ellerslie Road, Maud P., aged 25 years, was
taken ill on January 242th, 1902, with what was thought to be an
attack of Chickenpox, but must have been modified Smallpox; and on
February 26th, 1902, her father and mother (Alice and William P., aged
46 years each) were removed to Hospital suffering from Smallpox, Alice
sickening F'ebruary 17th, 1902, and William on February 16th, 1902.
Alice P. had been vaccinated and William P. re-vaccinated (20 years
ago).
(134) Emily B., aged 43 years, vaccinated, sickened at 45, Cottage
Grove, Bedford Road, on F'ebruary 21st, 1902, and was removed to
Hospital on February 25th, 1902. Source of infection was not
factorily traced, but infected clothes (laundry) were suspected. No
secondary cases arose amongst the 3 other inmates, all of whom were
re-vaccinated at once.
(135) Sydney Edwin J., aged 23 years, vaccinated, sickened February
23rd, 1902, and was removed to Hospital on F'ebruary 26th, 1902, from
55, Loughborough Road (provision shop), where it is supposed he
caught the disease whilst attending to customers. His wife (vaccinated)
escaped the disease.
(136 and 137) Leonard V. A., aged 17 years, unvaccinated, was an
attendant in the cloak-room at Kennington Theatre, and contracted
Smallpox there, sickening at 18a, Brighton Terrace, Brixton, on
F'ebruary 19th, 1902, and being removed to Hospital on F'ebruary
25th, 1902. 18a, Brighton Terrace is a tenement house, and at the
time of the outbreak contained 19 inmates (14 adults and 5 children
under 12 years of age), all of whom were re-vaccinated at once, except
(1) Henry R. T., aged 28 years, vaccinated, who sickened March 7th,