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were re-vaccinated, as well as the woman looking after the children.
The man's wife, an in-patient of the Sick Asylum and on the dangerous
list, had been visited daily by people from the house. The Medical
Superintendent of the Sick Asylum was immediately informed of this.
One of the inmates of the house was a female house to house hawker
of tapes, needles, etc. Her goods were destroyed and she was compensated.
The Medical Officer (Education), London County Council, was
communicated with as to the schools attended by the patients and inmates
of the house. The whole of Stafford Road School was disinfected by the
Public Health Department on March 9th.
(6.) Male, aged 35, Eglinton Road, Bow, vaccinated in infancy, and
re-vaccinated on March 3rd (the re-vaccination was not successful), father
of the above children. This patient went on March 10th to Joyce Green
Hospital to visit his younger daughter who was on the dangerous list;
the Medical Superintendent of the hospital telephoned to the Medical
Officer of Health that the father would be detained as he (the Medical
Superintendent) considered that he (the father) had had a very mild
attack of smallpox (probably about a fortnight old and contracted from
his wife); there was evidence of the disease on the soles of his feet.
This patient was the man mentioned above engaged at a hosier's
who had been travelling backwards and forwards to the City on the
District Railway, his wife and elder child being ill at home with smallpox,
and it appeared he himself had been suffering from the disease.
(7.) A case of smallpox occurred in a male, aged 7 years,
unvaccinated, of Stafford Road, Bow. The patient was notified and
removed to hospital on March 29th, 1911. The inmates of the premises
were all vaccinated or re-vaccinated on March 29th, and removed to the
Council's shelter for bathing and for the disinfection of their clothes.
Disinfection of the premises was duly carried out.
(8.) Male, 8 years, unvaccinated, of Ford Road, Bow, was notified
on April 1st to be suffering from smallpox and removed to hospital on the
same date. The usual precautions were taken. This patient died on
April 7th and was a relation of a lodger living in the house in Eglinton
Road from which four cases of smallpox had been removed.
(9.) Female, aged 4 years, Stafford Road, Bow, sister of No. 7
above. This patient was vaccinated for the first time March 29th, some