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break of the disease in Barrow Road. Two children,
a boy and girl, were kept at home suffering from Small
Pox. These cases were not disclosed to the Authorities till
the first attacked was convalescent. Two near neighbours,
a Mrs. Corps, who lived two doors off, and a Mrs. Jenner,
who lived opposite, were taken seriously ill at the same
time, November 24th. The first-named woman was sent
to the Small Pox hospital, and ultimately recovered.
The last died in a few days from some very virulent
disease, certified Typhus. The infected houses were
thoroughly fumigated and cleansed, and the disease was
arrested.
Notwithstanding my efforts to discover the origin of
the outbreak, I was unable to do so.
At the request of the Streatham Local Committee, I
subsequently inspected all the cottages in Barrow Road,
(nineteen in number). I found them in a very fairsanitary
condition.
Turning again to the table we find that there were
only four deaths from Scarlet Fever.
Though cases were removed to hospital from Streatham
and Tooting, this district has not, in comparisor with
others, suffered severely from the epidemic which has so
generally prevailed in London. Still, it has not been exempt,
and more than one outbreak of the disease
threatened, at one time, to become wide-spread.
One particular case called for prompt action. Its
origin was traced to three children in one family who
had no medical attendant, and who were allowed to run
about whilst actively peeling. When the Inspector of
Nuisances became aware of this state of things, he did
what he could to put a stop to it, but was too late to
prevent infection.