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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
Mrs. W., on the occasion of my visit, informed me that
she had been suffering from what she thought was influenza,
and that she had a visitor in the house who complained of
symptoms similar to her own. I advised her to send for her
medical man, which she did immediately after I left. In the
afternoon I received a telephone message stating that this
visitor, E. W., was suffering from Small Pox, and she was
removed to hospital that day. I was informed that she came
to Hopton Road on the 13th June and occupied the same
bed that Mrs. W. had slept on. The first symptoms of the
illness appeared on the 25th.
Mrs. B., who stayed at Hopton Road from the 5th to
the 8th June, went to Albion Street, Hyde Park, till the
14th, then to Coventry. This fact was communicated to the
Medical Officer of Health for Paddington.
I was also informed that a Mrs. S. left Hopton Road
on the 5 th for Farnan Road. She stayed there about nine
days, then went to Rochdale, Lancashire, and from Rochdale
to Mount Sorrel, near Loughborough, when she developed
what was said to be malignant Chicken Pox. I at once
communicated this fact to the Medical Officer of Health for
Loughborough, and afterwards received a letter from the
Medical Officer of Health for Leicestershire and Rutland
Rural District stating that Mrs. S. was suffering from Small
Pox.
The inmates of the house in Hopton Road, as well as
those at the house in Farnan Road, were re-vaccinated, and
the necessary disinfection and cleansing was carried out
under my personal supervision.
I found that all the personal and bed linen from the
house in Hopton Road had been sent on the 10th June to a
laundry in Ferrers Road. On the 26th I was notified of a
case of Diphtheria there, and on the Sanitary Inspector
calling at the premises he noticed that one of the girls had
some spots on her face, but as at that time he was not aware
of any case of Small Pox no importance was attached to this