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Group II.—Joseph H. (aged 22 years), living at 42, B—
Street, sickened with obscure symptoms (which afterwards
proved to be due to Typhoid Fever), with the
result that the case was not at first notified, and the
usual precautions were, therefore, not takt n, in the
way of isolation, etc., until three or four weeks of the
illness had gone, during which time the patient was a
source of infection to others, as shewn by the disease
spreading directly—
(1.) To a lodger, Thos. M. (aged 29 years), living in
the same house :
(2.) To a sister, Annie H. (aged 15 years) living at 4,
R—Place, a street close by;
(3). To a friend, John T. (age 20 years), living at 49,
BvStreet;
(4). To a friend, William T. (aged 30 years), living at
67, B—Street, and he has since given the
disease to his daughter, Clara T. (aged 9 years);
(5.) To two other persons living in the same street,
Ernest J. (aged 10 years), of 32, B—Street;
and Harriet F. (age 30 years), of 71, B—
Street; but a relationship between these cases
and the others could not be definitely traced,
though it was rendered highly probable by the
histories as to dates of sickening, etc.
Some of the above cases were discovered as the result
of a house-to-house enquiry, 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. No further case has tince occurred
in this district.