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remitting to get the only remedy applied which could be of
any avail to stop the mischief; that is to have the infected
rooms emptied of their tenants and cleansed; and to give the
tenants the benefit of fresh quarters for the recovery of their
health, and for the purification of their apparel and goods.
Meanwhile the drains of the house became stopped up, and a
most dangerous nuisance was created. The removal of the sick
persons was of course postponed till they were able to be
moved with safety, and then they resisted it, and were only
got out by the intervention of the magistrate at Marlboroughstreet.
A summons was taken out June 22nd, heard on the
29th, adjourned to July 8th, and again to the 15th, when
the families were reported to have been removed, the rooms
cleansed and fresh windows put in, for their better ventilation
in future. But this was not all. One of the
daughters, Louisa, set. 17, of the last-named family, came
to Mount-street with the small-pox on 11th July; and her
sister Rosa, set. 19, on the 17th, having, in the meanwhile,
been living at Islington, and at a Roman Catholic Refuge
in Robert-street. This last patient had not only small-pox
but typhus. Here is a history of six or seven months of
illness—scarlet fever, typhus, and small-pox, in a most
crowded and ill-ventilated house, in which the greatest
exertions were necessary to induce* the persons affected,
to make any move for their own benefit. It is in such
cases, which luckily do not happen very often in so aggravated
a form, that our functions are highly useful to
the community. We only wish that our powers were a little
more summary. Measles,' scarlet fever, and small-pox were
present at 18, North Bruton-mews, and 3, Queen-street,
Oxford-street; measles, small-pox, and diphtheria at 10,
Adam's-mews.