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four brothers, all unvaccinated, and all of whom suffered from
small-pox.
It cannot be said that, so far as our parish is concerned,
the neglect of vaccination has to be blamed for the prevalence
of small-pox. The proportion of children attacked is small;
and although, in two or three cases, several members of one
family, and several inmates of one house, were attacked in
succession, yet this was not common, and the mass of the
population were well protected. It is marvellous that the
dense population of Lancashire-court and Grosvenor-mews
escaped as they did.
In several instances, one house, or even one patient,
might be affected with more than one of these contagious
disorders together, or in close succession. In the last Report,
we spoke of a child at No. 4, John's-court, who died of
scarlatina and small-pox. At No. 23, Grosvenor-market,
measles, scarlatina, and small-pox were present in the same
house, and one patient had measles and small-pox in close
succession. In Quarterly Summary, No. XXII., we speak of
a girl of 13, named T., who was sent from No. 4, Thomasstreet,
with scarlet fever to the Fever Hospital, on 29th
January. She was sent home on 15th February, and died
on 13th March. She was kept unburied for ten days, and
our interference was called for by the occupier of the house,
in order to get her interred. In May her father, mother,
and sister, set. 4, were seized with typhus. The father died
on 25 th May, the rest recovered. Then the disease attacked
a woman named B. in the next room. This family consisted
of a husband who worked at Clerkenwell, and only spent
Sunday at home, his wife, and two grown-up daughters of
the wife by a former husband. The wife was seriously ill,
and had a narrow escape. Of course our exertions were