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May 29th, 1902. No other case occurred amongst the 4 other inmates
(3 adults and one child of 4 years of age), all vaccinated.
(309-311) A series of 3 cases arose in Dunbar Street, West Norwood,
from a very mild unrecognised case of Smallpox, treated as Chickenpox
(Mary S., aged 16 years, vaccinated, living at 53 Dunbar Street,
ing May 12th, 1902), 2 in the same house and 1 next door, as folows: —
(a) Elizabeth S. (mother), aged 43 years, vaccinated, of 53 Dunbar
Street, sickened May 30th, 1902, removed June 3rd, 1902.
(b) Samuel S. (brother), aged 5 years, unvaccinated sickened June
3rd, 1902, removed June 6th, 1902.
(c) Elizabeth H., aged 56 years, vaccinated, of 55 Dunbar Street,
sickened June 4th, 1902, and died June 6th, 1902 (before
moval to Hospital) from malignant Smallpox.
At the time of Mary S.'s unrecognised attack there were in the same
house 7 other inmates, 3 adults (vaccinated) and 4 children under 12
years of age (3 vaccinated and 1 unvaccinated). The unvaccinated
child and one vaccinated adult took the disease, the others escaping.
(312 and 313) Two cases of Smallpox were removed from 189-191
Upper Kennington Lane, on June 4th, 1902, both having sickened on
the same day (June 1st, 1902), and presumably having caught the
disease from the same source, which could not, however, be definitely
traced. The patients names were John H. S., aged 24 years, vaccinated,
and Ada S., aged 19 years, vaccinated—brother and sister. There were
10 other inmates (8 adults and 2 children under 12 years of age), all
vaccinated, 2 re-vacinated, and 4 re-vaccinated at once, and not one
caught the disease.
(314) Daisy A. R., aged 18 years, vaccinated, contracted Smallpox
from her mother's house in Camberwell Borough (177, Camberwell
Road), and sickened June 1st, 1902, being removed to Hospital on
June 4th, 1902.
(315) Albert F. R., aged 34 years, vaccinated, caught Smallpox whilst
on a visit at Erith from May 16th to 19th, 1902, sickened at Rowton
House, Bond Street, Vauxhall, on May 31st, 1902, and was removed
to Hospital on June 3rd, 1902.
(316) David L., aged 17 years, unvaccinated, of 37 Neville Street,
contracted Smallpox whilst at work as an orderly boy in Westminster
City, sickened June 2nd, 1902, and was removed to Hospital on June
6th, 1902. The 2 other inmates (both adults and vaccinated) escaped
the disease.
(317) Annie T., aged 45 years, vaccinated, living at 2 Avenue Park
Road (a school, daily attended by 25 children, all vaccinated),
tracted Smallpox from her son (Etien T.), living at 2 Avenue Park Road,
who had three weeks previously an unrecognised attack of modified
Smallpox, contracted whilst at work at a publishing firm in Westminster
City. Annie T. sickened June 2nd, 1902, and was removed to
Hospital on June 10th, 1902. Smallpox existed on a School premises
for a period of 4 weeks, during which time the 3 other inmates (adults
and vaccinated) and the 25 children (all vaccinated and 7 re-vaccinated)
were exposed directly or indirectly to infection, and were watched for a
period of 3 weeks at their own houses—the School itself being at once
closed. No secondary case arose.