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(10) Two children (unvaccinated) who fell ill simultaneously
(no history of infection), infected two other children
in the same house. (Cases 58 and 59, No. 4 Report, page 86,
and cases 62 and 63, No. 5 Report, page 96.)
(11) An anonymous letter led to discovery of six cases in
one house. The first case was that of a boy, the nature of
whose illness there is reason to belie re was known (or suspected
) by his mother, whom, as well as four other persons,
lie infected. (Cases 73 to 78, No. 6 Report, page 106.)
(12) A carman (source of infection unknown) infected
his wife and two children. (Cases 81—84, No. 6 Report, page
107.)
(13) Three days after arrival in the borough, a boy fell
ill; the disease was not recognized. He infected three other
members of the family, from whom four sisters, in another
house, contracted the disease, and in a third house the fiance
of one of them. (Cases 88 to 91, No. 6 Report, page 197, and
cases 93 to 97, No. 7 Report, page 124.)
(14) Two men were infected by their father, whom they
had visited before his removal to hospital: a third son, who
had slept with his father, escaped. (Cases 101—103, No. 8
Report, page 138.)
Amongst individual cases the following are deserving of
mention, some of them as indicating sources of infection outside the
Borough.
Cases 1 and 2 (No. 13 Report, 1901, page 176) imported from
another Borough.
Case 3 (No. 3 Report, page 177). A youth employed in Kensington,
fell ill simultaneously with a fellow employe who resided in another
Borough, whose two brothers, moreover, were stricken at the same
time. The obviously common source of infection was not traced.
Case 4 (No. 14, page 195) was on a visit in another Borough at
the date of infection.
Case 5 (No. 14, page 196) employed in another Borough, as a
bedmaker, at a Rowton House where there were cases of small-pox,
was sent home with the premonitory symptoms of small-pox.
Case 6 (No. 14, page 14) was infected at the Casual Ward in
another Borough, before coming to reside at a Boys' Home in
Kensington.
Case 8 (No. 1 Report, 1902, page 4). A public-house manager,
thought to be suffering from chicken-pox, infected a barmaid who
fell ill of small-pox in another Borough.
Case 10 (No. 1, page 5). A woman who had previously had
small-pox, was infected by her husband.