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The histories of Kensington cases were duly set out in the
successive monthly reports, but brief reference may be made here to
cetain groups of cases in illustration of modes of spread of the
disease:—
(1) A lad, employed in another boroug, the nature of
whose slight illness was not recognized, infected five inmates
of the house in which he resided. (No. 9 Report, 1901, page
122.)
(2) A gentleman, living in furnished apartments, the
nature of whose indisposition was not recognized, infected a
charwoman employed at the house, also his landlady and her
niece. The charwoman's case was the first to be notified. She,
in turn, infected a man with whom she cohabited, and a sister.
(Cases 11 —16, No. 1 Report, 1902, page 5.)
(3) A man, employed at Grays, in Essex, an infected
district, came home ill and infected his son and daughter.
(Cases 23—25, No. 2 Report, page 23.)
(4) Two brothers, engaged in work at Dagenham Smallpox
Hospital, contracted the disease, which they developed at
home in Kensington. (Cases 39—40, No. 3 Report, page 58.)
(5) A horsekeeper and a post-office official infected at a
house in another borough developed the disease in Kensington.
(Cases 41 and 42, No. 3 Report, page 58.)
(6) Two lodgers, and the night deputy, at a common
lodging-house apparently contracted the disease from a previous
unrecognized case in the same dormitory. (Cases 30
and 31, No. 2 Report, page 23; case 32, No. 3 Report, page 57).
(7) A man, from ) art ford, at a common lodging-house,
infected before arrival in the borough, was the source of
infection to the bedmaker. (Case 57, No. 4 Report, page 85,
and case 67, No. 5 Report, page 97.)
(8) A man, who had an illness variously described as
"measles," and as "blood poisoning, "infected his mother and his
sister. (Cases 54—56, No. 4 Report, page 85.)
(9) A woman in attendance at a general hospital had
come in contact with a male out-patient in a highly infectious
condition. *The nature of this woman's consequent slight
illness was not recognized, the result being that two persons
contracted the disease from her. One of them was removed to
the Western Fever Hospital for supposed "scarlet fever,"
which proved to be hemorrhagic small-pox, to which he soon
succumbed. (Cases 51—53, No. 4 Report, page 85.)
* Another woman (case 50) who had come in contact with this same man
was notified as chicken-pox, but was found to be suffering from small-pox and sent
to hospital. There were cases in other boroughs, owning the same origin.