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(1.) To a daughter, Ada J., 10 years of age, living at
the same house ;
(2.) To a friend's two children, Frank and Edith S.,
aged 4$ years and 11 years, living at 8 M—
Place (this house being opposite to No. 7, in the
same narrow and confined court), whilst Frank
S., at 8, M— Place, gave the disease to his
brother Fred (17 years of age), with whom he
slept;
(3.) To a friend, Ada M., aged 30, living at 5, M—
Place, two doors removed from No. 7, and, of
course, in the same narrow court.
By means of a house-to-house enquiry, no more cases
were found in the Court, and all the patients were removed
to hospital, and the houses and their contents thoroughly
disinfected, and the walls of the infected rooms, in each
case, stripped. The roadway of the court was found to be
in an unsatisfactory state, and has been attended to by the
Surveyor; whilst the houses (14 in number) have been
thoroughly inspected, and since registered by the Vestry
under Houses Let in Lodgings. No further case has since
occurred in this district—a satisfactory result, as there were
at the time several centres of infection in a crowded
court, consisting of 14 houses, containing 56 rooms, with
23 families, numbering in all 132 persons, 59 being children
under 10 years of age—the conditions of the persons themselves,
and their crowded and dirty surroundings, being
such as to form a suitable nidus for the rapid growth of
Typhoid germs.
The exact source of the first case (Louisa J.) of Group I.
could not be traced.