Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]
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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
on the 23rd. Returned home by the Medical Officer
as being free from infection.
(32.) C. A., aged 36, of Thornsett Road, Wandsworth. Notified
on the 12th February. This man was a checker
at the London & South-Western Railway, at Nine
Elms. No history of infection could be ascertained.
(33.) E. C., aged 27, of Haselrigge Road, Clapham. Notified
on the 13th February. The first symptoms appeared
on the 9th February. No history of infection could be
ascertained.
(34.) J. L., of Brenda Road, Balham. Notified on the 14th
February. The first symptoms appeared on the 12th
February. This man was a carpenter, working for Mr.
R., of Norwood, and he was employed up to the 3rd
February at the New Small-pox Hospital, at Dartford.
(35.) E. H, aged 28, of Bucharest Road, Wandsworth.
Notified on the 18th February. This man was
employed as assistant at Messrs. S. & G., at Islington.
He came to the above address on the 15th February.
No history of infection could be ascertained.
(36.) E. E., aged 36, of Summerstown, Wandsworth. Notified
on the 18th February as Chicken-pox. I visited
it and diagnosed it as a case of Small-pox, and she was
removed the same day. Infected by husband, next
case.
(37.) E. E., aged 46, of Summerstown, Wandsworth. Notified
on the 18th February. This man was a labourer,
employed at a factory at Wimbledon. He had been
ill a fortnight before with Influenza. His Medical
Attendant again examined him and notified him as
suffering from Small-pox. He was removed the same
'day.
(38.) N. S., aged 33, of St. Alphonsus Road, Clapham. Notified
on the 19th February. The first symptoms
appeared on the nth February, and the rash on the
18th. He was a labourer, employed at Clapham, and