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In the meantime, the Sanitary Inspector, Mr. Johnson, and the
Chief Disinfector, were making enquiries at the Seamen's and
Common lodging-houses, and Mr. Johnson found that the patient
had slept at a Common lodging-house in High Street, Poplar, with
the two coloured men on the nights of the 16th and 17th of
February.
The Inspectors of the London County Council found some of
the other contacts in Common lodging-houses in Whitechapel.
The two coloured men were re-vaccinated and taken to the
Council's Shelter, Glaucus Street, to be bathed and their clothes
disinfected.
The men spent the night at the shelter.
The bed and bedding from three rooms at the Common lodginghouse
were removed to the disinfecting apparatus and the three
rooms were disinfected and limewashed.
(3) Female, aged 16 years, Suffolk Street, removed 3rd March,
stated to have been vaccinated in infancy. The patient during the
day was a servant in Burdett Road, and slept at night at Alton
Street, but when taken ill was sent home to her parents in
Suffolk Street.
Patient was an "out-patient" at Poplar Hospital at the same
time as the negro from the s.s. "Austriana" was waiting to be
seen.
All the inmates of the house, five in number, were passed through
the Council's Shelter. The father and step-mother slept at the
Shelter, while the room was being disinfected.
(4) A medical practitioner telephoned on the 4th March, asking
me to see a case which he had been called to, and which had been
considered to be chicken-pox.
I visited the patient, a male, aged 34 years, of Duff Street. The
patient was an official at an institution in a street off the East
India Dock Road, used by seamen, and registered as a Common
lodging-house.