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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
In all, 34 cases were notified (five in Clapham, one in Putney,
six in Streatham, seven in Tooting, and 15 in Wandsworth),
Of these 34 cases, five (three in Streatham and two in Wandsworth)
were returned from the Metropolitan Asylums Board's
Hospital as not suffering from Small Pox, leaving 29 actual cases
of Small Pox.
(1)—G. K., aged 24, of Park Road, Clapham. This man
was a steward on board the ss. Duke of Portland, and two cases
had occurred on the ship. He came to Clapham on the 10th,
•and took ill on the 12th February. No other cases occurred from
this.
(2 to 6)—These five cases occurred in Streatham, but two
were returned as not Small Pox. The details of this outbreak
are as follows: —
On the 28th June I received a letter from the Medical
Officer of Health for the Borough of Lambeth, enclosing a
letter from the Medical. Officer of Health for Coventry stating
that a Mrs. B. had been removed on the 25th June to the
Small Pox Hospital at Coventry suffering from Small Pox,
and this diagnosis was confirmed by further letter of the 28th
June. The lady, Mrs. B., had been visiting at a house in
Hopton Road, Streatham, and stayed there from the 5th to
the 8th June, and the occupier of that house, a Mr. W.,
died at midnight on the 4th from what was stated on the
death certificate to be nephritis and syncope. I called at
the house at once and ascertained that Mr. W. had arrived
from Paris on the 23rd May, where he had been living for
nine weeks at the Hotel St. Petersburg. He seemed in good
health till Sunday, the 2nd June, when he complained of
headache, backache, and fever, and the medical man in
attendance thought that he was suffering from a chill following
a bicycle ride on Saturday, the 1st June. No rash was
observed during life, but after death his medical man, when
dressing the corpse, observed numerous haemorrhagic spots
on his body, and also that decomposition was rapidly supervening.
The body was buried on the 8th June,