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He was admitted to the Infirmary on the 9th September, 1907.
While in the Infirmary he developed Scarlet Fever on the 24th
September, and was at once removed to the Metropolitan Asylums
Board Hospital. He was discharged from Gore Farm (M.A.B.)
Convalescent Hospital on the 27th November, and was sent to
the Workhouse on the 2nd December. He was readmitted to the
Infirmary on the 16th December, and placed in Ward IV., "B"
Block, where he remained until convalescent from Febricula and
Ophthalmia. On the 14th January, 1908, he was transferred to
the Livingstone Ward in "A" Block. On the 22nd February, a
child named Ada G—, in Livingstone Ward, was noticed to be
suffering from a nasal discharge. A swab was taken from her,
and, on bacteriological examination, was found to be positive, and
the patient was immediately removed to Hospital. It was then
arranged to (bacteriologically) examine all the children in this
Ward, and 5 of them were found to be suffering (clinically or
bacteriologically) from Diphtheria, and removed to Hospital.
Seven other children, including the child George G—, were
found, on bacteriological examination, to have Diphtheroid
organisms in their throats or noses, and were transferred to the
Isolation Ward in " B " Block. George G— was subsequently
found, on bacteriological examination, to have Diphtheria, and
was notified and removed to the Metropolitan Asylums Board Hospital
on the 16th March, from which he was discharged on the
13th April.
It is significant that this was the only child in Nurse
G—'s Ward. He was under her charge up to the time she was
attacked with Diphtheria, and removed to Hospital. After her
return from Hospital, she states this child had a sore throat, but
this does not appear to have been noted, the patient being isolated
for Ophthalmia amongst the adult patients in "B" Block, Ward
IV. Further, after his removal to Livingstone Ward, "A"
Block, the fact that several cases of clinical or bacteriological
Diphtheria were removed to the Metropolitan Asylums Board
Hospital, and he with 7 others were at the same time "suspects,"
and transferred to the Isolation Ward for such patients, and that
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