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REPORT OF THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH ON THE
CIRCUMSTANCES ATTENDING THE OCCURRENCE OF
A CASE OF HUMAN ANTHRAX IN THE BOROUGH.
Pubi.ic Health Department,
Town Hall, Hackney, N.E.
To the Chairman and Members
of the Public Health Committee.
Gentlemen,
In accordance with your instructions, I beg herewith to report
in detail the circumstance in which George Braybrooke, of 6,
Maclaren Street, in this Borough, contracted Anthrax and as to
the measures taken to prevent the spread of this disease.
History of Case.—The patient, George Braybrooke, is 15 years
old and lives at home at 6, Maclaren Street, in this Borough, with
his parents and six brothers and sisters, the whole family occupying
a flat of four rooms with scullery.
He informs me that he was in the employ of the Curled Hair
Manufacturing Co., Clarence Road, at the time he fell ill, and had
been in the same employment for nine weeks prior to the onset
of his illness. Towards the end of May last he noticed what appeared
to be a small sore on his right cheek. He consulted a local practitioner,
who regarded the lesion as a malignant pustule and sent
him to the London Hospital, where he was detained and treated.
The Surgical Registrar of this Hospital has very kindly furnished
me with the following note of the case:—
"George Braybrooke was admitted to the London
Hospital 3rd June, 1914. On his right cheek was a lesion
having the characteristic appearance of a malignant pustule.