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were certified by the Medical Superintendent of the South Wharf as
not suffering from small-pox.
The first case which occurred in connection with the Borough was
notified to me by the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth.
The patient had been in Paris from 21st to the 24th July, and from
there he returned on the 24th July to a house in the West Ferry
Road, where he was engaged in the shop. On the 3rd August he
went to Wandsworth, and was taken ill; the rash appeared on the
6th August, and the patient was at once removed to the Small Pox
Hospital. The room in which the patient slept in the West Ferry
Road, was disinfected, stripped, and limewhited, and the patient's
clothes were disinfected. The Vaccination Officer was communicated
with. The inmates of the house were induced to be vaccinated
and kept under observation.
The next case notified was from the Old Ford Road on the 23rd
September.
No further remarks will be made now respecting the outbreak of
small-pox which has extended well into the year 1902, and the work
caused by endeavouring to combat with the loathsome disease has
delayed the making up of this report, but I hope to find time later
on to write a history of the outbreak, and give various charts.
Of the 59 persons attacked with small-pox, 10 died, 4 Poplar, 5
Bromley and 1 Bow.
During the time that small-pox was beginning to prevail, a large
number of cases of chicken-pox were notified from various schools in
the district. In several instances when the Sanitary Inspectors called
at the premises notified they were informed that no doctor had been
in attendance. I then went and asked to examine the patients; this
was most important, as during the outbreak of small-pox in London
it had been reported that cases had occurred in people who had been
in houses where supposed chicken-pox existed.
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