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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(d) Albert J. L., aged 24 years, 2 Kempsford Road, vaccinated,
sickened May 7th, 192, removed May 11th, 1902.
(e) Anthony A., aged 45 years, 153, Waterloo Road, vaccinated,
sickened May 9th, 1902, removed May 13th, 1902.
(f) Phcebe B., aged 30 years, 35 Ashmole Place, vaccinated,
ened May 11th, 1902, removed May 14th, 1902; died May
23rd, 1902.
In connection with these 6 cases, living in close contact at the time
of the outbreaks were 12 other inmates (9 adults and 3 children), all
vaccinated, and 10 re-vaccinated at once ; and not one of these caught
the disease.
(273 and 274) Frederick T., aged 24 years, vaccinated, contracted
Smallpox at his work (Printing Firm in Finsbury Borough), and
sickened on May 5th, 1902, at 12 Gloucester Street, being removed to
Hospital on May 9th, 1902. Of the 7 inmates at the time of the outbreak,
0 were vaccinated adults, and 1 a vaccinated infant of 1 year of
age. All the adults were re-vaccinated at once, with the exception of
Frederick S., aged 24 years, who sickened May 21st, 1902, and was
moved to Hospital on May 23rd, 1902.
(275 and 276) William J. B., aged 28 years, unvaccinated, contracted
Smallpox from his son (William B.), who was removed, suffering with
Smallpox, from 13 Keppell Street, Holborn Borough, on April 23rd,
1902. William J. B. sickened May 6th, 1902, at 11 Fenwick Place,
where he lived alone, and was removed to Hospital on May 13th, 1902,
having previously infected his friend, Alfred H. C., aged 30 years,
vaccinated, living at 7, Landor Road, who sickened May 21st, 1902,
and was removed to Hospital on May 26th, 1902.
(277) George R., aged 23 years, vaccinated, contracted Smallpox at
his work (King Street, Regent Street), and sickened May 10th, 1902, at
11, Vassall Road, being removed to Hospital on May 14th, 1902.
(278-280) Smallpox broke out in a Court (Cage Place), containing 17
cottages and 41 inhabitants (18 adults, all vaccinated, and 23 children
under 12 years of age, 6 unvaccinated). The first case was Percy Y.,
aged 12 years, vaccinated, living at No. 16, who sickened May 8th,
1902, and was removed to Hispital on May 14th, 1902. Only two more
cases arose, viz., Jane R., aged 27 years, vaccinated, living next door
(No. 17), who sickened May 23rd, 1902, and was removed to Hospital
on May 26th, 1902; and Edwin J., aged 10 years, unvaccinated, living
at No. 10, who sickened May 24th, 1902, and was removed May 27th,
1902. The source of the first infection was not traced.
(281) Kate R. B., aged 29 years, vaccinated, the wife of a ticket
collector at Holborn Viaduct Station, in connection with which there
had been several cases of Smallpox, including 3 who sickened within
the Borough of Lambeth, viz., G. M., J. W. A., and H. B. (vide cases
251, 252, 259), sickened on May 13th, 1902, at 109 Hargwynne Street,
and was removed to Hospital on May 16th, 1902. Of the 6 other
inamtes (1 adult, re-vaccinated, and 5 children under 12 years of age,
all vaccinated and 3 re-vaccinated at once), not one sickened with the
disease.
(282 and 283) Elizabeth B., aged 30 years, vaccinated, of 186
wood Road, sickened on April 30th, 1902, with what was considered
to be an attack of Chickenpox, but what was an attack of modified