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8th, and he was removed on the night of the same day. Patient's object
in coming to Poplar was to study at "The Passmore-Edwardes Sailors'
Palace," Limehouse, for his certificate, but, being taken ill, he did not
commence studying there.
The Medical Officer of the Port of London was immediately informed
of the case per telephone, and the Secretary of the Sailors' Palace, above
mentioned, was also informed, and two seamen, studying at the Institution
and living at the house where the case occurred, were stopped from going
to the Palace for a period of seventeen days. These two seamen, together
with the tenant, his wife and child and a male friend (a sea-faring man) of
the tenant were taken to the Council's Shelter, bathed, and their clothes
disinfected, and all six persons were re-vaccinated.
The room in Poplar where the patient had slept was disinfected,
stripped (there were six or more papers on the wall), and cleansed by the
Council's men, and the inmates of the house were kept under daily
observation until the period of incubation had expired.
VACCINATION.
Vaccination Act, 1907.