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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(331 and 332) Edward D., aged 21 years, vaccinated, contracted
Smallpox from his brother, who was removed to Hospital (where he
died), suffering with the disease, from a house in Southwark Borough,
and sickened June 1st, 1902, at 38 Commercial Road, being removed
to Hospital on June 4th, 1902. His fiancee (Rose D., aged 18 years,
vaccinated, and living at 11 High Street, Lambeth) caught the disease,
sickening June 16th, 1902, and being removed to Hospital on June
19th, 1902.
(333) Frank F., aged 18 years, vaccinated, sickened at 22 Cornwall
Road, on June 19th, 1902, being removed to Hospital on June 23rd,
1902. The source of his infection was not traced.
(334) Cordelia B., aged 18 years, vaccinated, contracted Smallpox
at 31 Euston Road (Waverley Hotel), in St. l'ancras Borough, sickened
June 20th, 1902, and was removed to Hospital on June 23rd, 1902.
No other case occurred amongst the 4 other inmates (all adults and
vaccinated).
(335) David D., aged 22 years, vaccinated, of 84, Paulet Road, contracted
Smallpox from a source that could not be traced, sickened June
18th, 1902, and was removed to Hospital on June 23rd, 1902. No
secondary case occurred amongst the 8 other inmates (all adults and
vaccinated).
(336) Griffith O., aged 32 years, vaccinated, contracted Smallpox
at his work in the New Cut, and sickened June 20th, 1902, being removed
to Hospital on June 25th, 1902. Griffith O. was in lodgings
at 45 New Cut, and the other 7 inmates (5 adults and 2 children under
12 years of age), all vaccinated and 3 re-vaccinated, escaped the disease.
(337) Emily S., aged 31 years, vaccinated, sickened on June 28th,
1902, at 150 Tyers Street, and was removed to Hospital on July 1st,
1902, having probably contracted the disease whilst shopping in Lambeth
Walk. No other case occurred amongst the 13 other inmates (6
adults and 7 children under 12 years of age), all vaccinated except a
child of 5 years of age, 1 re-vaccinated, and 7 re-vaccinated at once.
(338) Walter F., aged 22 years, vaccinated, a decorator dealing with
infected houses in Southwark Borough, contracted Smallpox at his
work, sickened at 118 Farmer's Road, on June 28th, 1902, and vas
removed to Hospital on July 1st, 1902. The remaining 2 inmates (an
adult, re-vaccinated, and a vaccinated child of 7 years) escaped.
(339) Mary A. G., aged 31 years, vaccinated, living at 33, Hemans
Street, Wandsworth Road, sickened on June 29th, 1902, and was removed
to Hospital on July 3rd, 1902. The source of the infection was
not traced. No other case occurred amongst the 4 other inmates (2
adults, vaccinated, and 2 vaccinated children under 12 years of age).
(340) John C., aged 46 years, vaccinated, a lighterman, working near
the Hospital Ships at Long Reach, contracted Smallpox therefrom, and
sickened at 1 Granby Buildings, Broad Street, on July 4th, 1902. He
was removed on July 6th, 1902, to Hospital, where he died cn July
13th, 1902. No secondary case arose amongst the other 7 inmates of
the tenement (5 adults and 2 children under 12 years of age) ; 4 adults
had been vaccinated and 2 re-vaccinated, 1 unvaccinated) had had
Smallpox, whilst 1 child was unvaccinated and the other vaccinated.
(341) Corelli F., aged 14 years, unvaccinated, contracted Smallpox
whilst engaged as a Clerk in a Public Vaccinator's Office in Southwark
Borough, and sickened on July 4th, 1902, at 19 Knowle Road. He