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1.—Female, aged 27 years, of Morant Street, Poplar
(where a case had been removed previously on the 20th
December). The patient had faint vaccination marks, and
upon the removal of the patient on the 20th December, and
several times afterwards, she was advised to be re-vaccinated,
but she refused. The patient was prematurely confined of
an eight months' living child on the 4th January, and attended
by a midwife.
At the request of a Medical Practitioner I examined her
on the 5th January, and found her to be suffering with
Small-pox and too ill to be removed, and in order to prevent
the spread of the disease, the whole of the inmates were
isolated within the house, food, etc., being supplied, the
rent, and medical attendance paid at the expense of the
Council. The inmates of the house who had not been
re-vaccinated in the first instance, agreed now to be done
The patient died on the 6 th January. The body was
immediately coffined and removed to the Council's Infectious
Mortuary, Wellington Road, and all the inmates taken to
the Shelter, Glaucus Street The Undertaker's men also
went to the Shelter, had baths, and their clothes disinfected.
Several articles of clothing, etc., had to be destroyed, and
the premises were thoroughly disinfected, washed, stripped,
and lime-whited.
2.—The prematurely-born male infant of the above
patient developed on the 10th January Small-pox at the
Councils Shelter, and was removed on the same day, and
afterwards died. The child was vaccinated as soon as bcrn,
but the germs of the disease were in his system.
3.—Male, aged 32 years, was notified from the Seamen s
Hospital, Greenwich. The patient had been living at a
Seamen's Lodging House in Pennyfields; he had been home
from sea five weeks. The first two weeks he was stated to