Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hanover Square, The Vestry of the Parish of Saint George]
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No. 11, Sutherland-place, Elizabeth L., 24, vaccinated
when a child: had been to Greenwich for a holiday, just
before the disease occurred. She was sent to the SmallPox
Hospital, 5 January, 1864.
No. 2, Brewer's-yard, Brewer-street, a girl who had been
vaccinated.
No. 12, Gray's-inn-place, Hindon-street, Mary Ann M.,
aged 8, not vaccinated: removed to the Small-Pox Hospital,
March 14; her sister, Eliza M., also not vaccinated, on
1st April.
No. 11 ib., a girl of 11, three boys of 10, 7, and 4
years of age, and a boy of 17 months, had the disease very
slightly.
No. 10, Bloomfield-place, a man aged 28, who worked in
the Borough Market, and a child of 10 months, both unvaccinated:
the latter was removed to the Small-Pox Hospital,
March 4, 1864.
No. 6, Johnsons-place, Lupus-street, George M., aged 27,
vaccinated: came with the disease from Galashiels, and was
sent to the Small-Pox Hospital on the 30th of March.
No. 59, Hanover-street, W. Hunt, sent to the Small-Pox
Hospital, March 2.
special cases.
Nos. 9 to 31, St. George's-row, and Nos. 3, 4, 7, and
9, St. Georges-place.—These houses are old, dirty, and
dilapidated, the sinks without traps, the water-butts dirty
and uncovered, yards dirty, water-closets very much out of
repair, and some of them without water. A notice was
served on December the 26th, and subsequently power was
given by the Nuisances Removal Committee to take proceedings;
but it was not required, as the roofs of the houses