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(4) Rose Jarvis entered the Receiving Ward of the Lambeth
Schools on March 22nd, 1905; was sent home from there on
April 15th (remaining at home until April 22nd); again entered
the Receiving Ward on April 22nd, and remained there until
April 25th ; was again sent home on April 25th to be re-admitted
into the Receiving Ward on the following day (April 26th)
where she remained until she was removed to the Isolation Block
of the Infirmary on June 16th (doubtful modified or involuted
diphtheria bacilli being found in her throat).
The mother (Mary) was confined at the Workhouse on
February 12th, 1905, of a female child (christened Sarah), afterwards
returning home, where she last saw her other children
(prior to their going to the Lambeth Parochial Schools) on April
25th. The mother (Mary), father (James), and baby (Sarah)
re-entered the Workhouse on May 8th, and the baby (Sarah)
having developed Whooping Cough was admitted, with her
mother, into the Workhouse Infirmary Ward I. (2) on June 5th,
the mother being taken ill on June 14th with symptoms of
Tonsillitis, and the baby (Sarah) sickening with clinical symptoms
of Diphtheria on June 18th, and being removed to the Metropolitan
Asylums Board Hospital on June 22nd. The simple tonsillitis
of Mary Jarvis (mother) of June 14th was a superadded disease
to her previous Diphtheria attack in April, as shown by
bacteriological examination (only staphylococci and streptococci
being found), the Diphtheria attack recrudescing, however, as
shown by the fact that the baby (Sarah) caught the Diphtheria on
or about June 14th. Klebs-Lœffler bacilli (in pure cultivation) and
a few Vincent's organisms (on smear preparations) were found in
the throat and nose of Sarah Jarvis, who also had well-marked
clinical symptoms of Diphtheria, both the bacteriological and
clinical diagnoses being independently confirmed at the Metropolitan
Asylums Board Hospital. Sarah Jarvis died on August
4th, 1905, from Diphtheria.
The father (James Jarvis) gave negative results when his
throat and nose were examined bacteriologically.
The house from which the Jarvis children were admitted, and
re-admitted, into the Lambeth Parochial Schools, and from which
the mother and father went into the Workhouse, was 24, Industry
Terrace, Brixton, but no case of Diphtheria had been at the time,
nor has been since, up to the date of this Report, notified as
having occurred there, nor in that particular part of the Borough.
The Jarvis children infected the Norwood Schools Infirmary
and Receiving Ward, one of them (Willie) directly infecting, at