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11
SMALL-POX.
In May a child of 15 months who had been
vaccinated was notified as having Small-pox.
Further investigation, however, showed that the case
was really one of severe Chicken-pox, and the child
was admitted to Bethnal Green Hospital. It was
fortunate that the case proved not to be Small-pox,
as it occurred in a densely populated block of flats.
Owing to the effective protection afforded by
vaccination, Small-pox in a vaccinated child of 15
months is very unlikely to occur, and such cases
invariably prove to be Chicken-pox.
During the year 12 individuals who had been in
contact with Small-pox were reported to me and kept
under close observation for the period of a fortnight,
within which the disease might develop. None of
these persons contracted the disease. Ten of them
were soldiers from a vessel on which a case of Smallpox had occurred. One person had recently arrived
from an infected port in Spain, and the remaining
person had visited by mischance a hospital ward in
which a case of Small-pox was shortly afterwards
detected.
TYPHOID FEVER.
Five cases were notified. In no case was it
possible to ascertain the source of infection. Two
deaths from the disease occurred.
TYPHUS FEVER.
One man who had been in contact with a case on
board a steamship was kept under observation.