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March. The child was soon afterwards noticed to be ill, and
in consequence, the hospital authorities sent to its grandmother,
who lived at 2, Hanover-place, who, at their request
or suggestion, removed the child from the hospital in a street
cab on Monday the 13th April. The hospital people say
that they did not know that the child had small-pox when it
was sent out, but that it must have gone out somewhere even
if they had known it. An attempt has been made to deny
that the disease was small-pox, because the fact was not certified
by any medical attendant; but a respectable married
woman at No. 2, Hanover-place, to whom the infant was
brought to be suckled on the day that it came from the hospital,
saw the spots, and the undertaker says there can be
no doubt of it. The body was taken to the cemetery on the
box of another street cab to be buried.
Two in the Mayfair sub-district, registered thus, viz.:—
"25th April, 1863. No.—, Piccadilly,/., 30. Epilepsy,
with consequent imbecility, 10 years; confluent smallpox
10 days; certified." She had been vaccinated young.
" 15th May, 1863. No. 4, John's-court, m., 1 year.
Scarlatina 6 days, small-pox 4 days; certified."
This latter was a very unfortunate case. On inspecting
the children of the Grosvenor School, we found an unvaccinated
child, Joseph W., aged 3, living at 4, John's-court.
The parents were extremely unwilling to have the operation
done, and only yielded to the strongest pressure and threats
of legal proceedings. After Joseph W., his younger brother
Arthur W., aged 1 year, was done on the 4th May, and was
seized in succession with scarlatina and small-pox, and died
on the 15th. It is fair to add that both children were so
feeble and ricketty, that the delay of their vaccination was
excusable.
Six inmates of the workhouse contracted the disease,
viz.:—