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Wandsworth 1902

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]

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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
(23.) G. W., aged 29, of Cotman Street, Wandsworth. Notified
on the 1st February. This man is a carpenter, and
worked at Waterloo Road. The first symptoms
appeared on the 29th January, and the rash on the 31st
January. No history of infection could be ascertained.
(24.) D. S., aged 57, of Ramsden Road, Balham. Notified
on the 3rd February, 1902. The first symptoms
appeared on the 30th January, and the rash on the 1st
February. This man was a pier-master, and worked at
Rotherhithe, near a wharf from which Small-pox
patients were removed to the Hospital Ships. No
history of infection could be ascertained.
(25.) A. S., aged 27, of Greyhound Lane, Streatham. Notified
on the 6th February. Not Small-pox.
(26.) W. M., aged 7, of Marcus Street, Wandsworth. Notified
on the 7th February. Not Small-pox.
(27.) C. S., aged 22, of Greyhound Lane, Streatham. Notified
on the 8th February. The first symptoms appeared
on the 17th January with what was stated to be Influenza
and Chicken-pox. No definite history of infection
could be ascertained.
(28.) J. A., aged 36, of Rashleigh Street, Clapham. Notified
on the 1 oth February. The first symptoms appeared
on the 7th February, and the patient was removed on
the 1 oth February. No history of infection could be
ascertained. Unvaccinated. Fatal.
(29.) G. L., aged 6, of Recovery Street, Tooting. Not Smallpox.
(30.) A. M., aged 32, of Trentham Street, Wandsworth.
Notified on the nth February. Infected by husband
(Case 31).
(31.) J. M., aged 36, of Trentham Street, Wandsworth.
Notified on the nth February. This man was an
engineer on the New Small-pox Hospital at Dartford,
and was at work on the 19th January. The first
symptoms appeared on the 20th January, and the rash