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May 16. Thos. H., set. 18, shoemaker, working at 72,
Davies-street, but living at Hooper's-court, Knightsbridge.
May 18. Mary H., set. 26, taken ill at Queen-street,
Knightsbridge, where she was living as a servant; sent in a
cab to 17, Brown-street, where her mother lives; never vaccinated
till May 11th, the day she became ill.
May 12. John L., 23, coachman, lodging in South-street;
vaccinated.
May 11. W. H., 24, lodging in Davies-street; vaccinated.
June 4. W. H., 25, from Chipping Norton; only a few
days in London; lodging at the " Greyhound," Brick-street.
June 5. G. B., 29, a marine from Chatham, "drinking
about at various public houses;" vaccinated.
June 15. W. B., set. 17, native of Meopham; lodging in
Woodstock-street, vaccinated.
The remaining adult patients, were either domestic servants,
artizans in lodgings, or small housekeepers.
Amongst them were 4 unvaccinated, viz.—
Elizabeth W., set. 23, No. —, Clarges-street, recently
confined in Mount-street of an illegitimate child.
Robert P. set. 18, 4, Street's-buiklings.
Caroline G., 33, servant at No. —, Norfolk-street.
"VV. B., 20, shopman at a grocer's in Oxford-street.
The fatal cases were three, viz.,—one in the Hanover
sub-district, thus entered in the Register of Deaths:—
"20th April, 2, Ilanover-place, Bond-street,/., 3 weeks,
daughter of a domestic servant, small-pox. Eruption stated
to have been out when brought from the hospital a week ago.
No medical attendant."
This case led of course to inquiry. The mother of this
infant was a woman aged 46, wife of a gentleman's servant
in the country, ill with consumption, and a patient in the
Charing Cross Hospital, where she was delivered on the 30th