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Report of the Medical Officcr of Health.
(7)—W. H., of North Street, Wandsworth. Notified on the
27th August. This man had been in Paris from the 21st to the
24th July, and was infected there. All contacts were re-vaccinated,
and no secondary cases occurred.
(8)—J. G., of Wandsworth Road, Clapham. Notified on the
29th August. This man was employed at a workshop in Fitzroy
Square, from which neighbourhood several cases had been
removed. He infected his son (next case).
(9)—T. G., notified on the 12th September. This lad was
re-vaccinated the day after his father was removed to hospital,
but the re-vaccination was not successful. This case was a very
mild one. No other secondary cases occurred.
(10)—S. G., residing in Hopton Road, Streatham. Not
Small Pox.
(11)—A. L., residing at Cornwall Road, Clapham. Notified
on the 5th November. No history of infection could be ascertained.
(12, 13, 14, and 18)—These four cases all occurred in one
house in Aldis Street, Tooting.
The first case reported, A. J., was infected by her brother,
H. D., an unrecognised case, at first treated at home for Chicken
Pox. Immediately after the removal of A. J. all other occupants
of the house were re-vaccinated with the exception of No. 18,
an old man of 72, notified on the 25th November, who died in
hospital from Small Pox.
H. D. also infected his sweetheart, who lived in Wimbledon.
(15 and 16)—M. G. and F. G., residing at Rooksione Road,
Tooting. Notified on the Ilth November. Infected by husband
of F. G., who worked in Bermondsey, and who had an unrecognised
mild attack three weeks previously. When I visited
the house I examined this man and found him convalescent and
free from infection. M. G., the infant aged three weeks, was
unvaccinated and had a confluent attack.