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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
(17)—E. H., residing at Brocklebank Road, Wandsworth.
Notified on the 25th November. This woman kept a small
laundry. No history of infection could be ascertained. This
patient died in hospital.
(19)—M. B., of South Street, Wandsworth. Not Small Pox.
(20, 21, 26, 27, 28, and 29)—These cases resided at Belvernie
Grove, Wandsworth. 20 (W. H.) and 21 (H. H.) were notified on
the 7th December, and were probably infected a fortnight previously
at St. Bartholomew's Hospital Out-Patients' Department.
W. H., an unvaccinated child, died in hospital. 26, 27, 28, and
29, living in the downstairs flat were not re-vaccinated, as No. 29,
the father, refused to allow it. Four out of the five in the family
were affected, while in the upstairs flat no secondary case occurred,
as they were all re-vaccinated the same day that the first cases
were removed to hospital.
(22)—T. B., residing at Charlmont Road, Tooting. Notified
on the 9th December. No history of infection could be ascertained.
He had been in the city a fortnight previously.
(23)—H. F., residing at Fawe Park Road, Wandsworth.
Notified on the 12th December. This man came from Jubilee
Chambers, Hammersmith, a few days before he sickened, and
several cases of small pox had been removed from these Chambers.
H. F. infected (30) W. P. and (31) H. P., living at the same
address. These two refused to be re-vaccinated when H. F. was
removed.
(24)—H. M., residing at Garton Street, Wandsworth. Not
small pox.
(25)—C. D., residing at Warple Road, Putney. Notified on
the 19th December. Probably infected at his place of work by
a fellow workman, who lived in Battersea, and who had small pox.
(32)—E. L., residing at Burntwood Lane, Wandsworth.
Notified on the 27th December. This man visited the Small Pox
Ships on the 13th December to see his brother-in-law, and is
stated to have refused re-vaccination.