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The Medical Officer of Health of the district where two of the
daughters (contacts) worked was notified.
The patient was an out-worker and work was found upon the
premises at the time she was removed. The work was taken to
the disinfecting station, Glaucus Street, the firm notified, and also
the Medical Officer of Health of the district.
(2) A coloured man suffering from small-pox walked into the
Poplar Hospital on the 18th February and could give no proper
account of himself except his name. He stated he had been
sleeping with other coloured men in a lodging-house near a church
in Poplar.
The ambulance nurse, before taking the patient to the South
Wharf, endeavoured to find out his address by calling at several
lodging-houses, but the patient was not known.
As soon as the authorities at Poplar Hospital telephoned to the
Public Health Department that the case had been removed, the
chief disinfectoir commenced calling at the Seaman's lodginghouses
and Common lodging-houses. The London County Council
was communicated with so that the inspectors of the Common
lodging-houses might make enquiries. The Medical Officer of the
South Wharf was telephoned to and asked to put further questions
to the patient (who was evidently a sailor) as to the name of his
ship and where he came from. The patient did not know the
name of his ship, but he stated he had come from Newport News.
The Medical Officer of the Port of London was immediately
telephoned to and asked to make enquiries as to all ships which
had arrived from Newport News.
On the 19th February, the Port of London Medical Officer telephoned
that the patient, with two other coloured men and nine
other men, all cattlemen, had left the s.s. "Austriana" in Victoria
Docks on the 16th February, but he did not know where they had
gone to.