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Warrior Road (a domestic workshop) a child (Christopher
A.), aged 7 months and unvaccinated, developed "spots,"
which were treated by the medical attendant as those of
severe chicken-pox, with the result that the child was kept
at home (being ill for about 4 weeks from May 20th to
June 20th) in a house where articles of clothing were being
made and where 3 young women from the neighbourhood
"were working. Two of these three young women sickened
with Small-pox, viz:—Constance J. (aged 15 years and
unvaccinated) of 46, Warrior Road, on June 11th, and Daisy
G. (aged 21 years and vaccinated in infancy) of 3, Warrior
Road, on June 7th. A house-to-house inspection was made
in the immediate neighbourhood, but no other cases were
found, though many persons had to be watched during the
incubation period of the disease.
During the year 2 other cases of smallpox were notified:—
1. Edward B., aged 36 years, vaccinated in infancy, and
(?) revaccinated, of 117, Coldharbour Lane, who
contracted his disease from abroad (Aden), having
sickened August 17th, i.e., 2 days after arriving in
England, and who was removed to hospital, where
he found an officer (also suffering from Smallpox)
of the ship in which they had returned together;
2. Margaret R., aged 23, years and vaccinated in infancy,
of 19, Ethelred Street, who sickened on Aug. 29th,
and was removed at once to hospital, but the source
of whose contagion could not be traced. [In connection
with this second case there were 12 other
persons in the house, 6 adults and 6 children under
10 years—all vaccinated except 2 children, who
were, however, vaccinated at once; no other case
occurred. Compensation of 14/- (for 2 weeks)
was allowed to the mother for loss of her work as
a laundry woman.]