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.
(78.) S. B., aged 23, of Point Pleasant, Wandsworth. Notified
on the 3rd April. Patient was a flower girl. No
history of infection could be ascertained.
(79.) W. J„ aged 38, of Wandsworth Workhouse. Notified
on the 3rd April.
(80.) J. U., aged 64, of Foley Place, Clapham. Notified on
the 3rd April. Patient was infected by her son who
was removed to Hospital suffering from Small-pox
from Battersea, on the 20th March.
(81.) H. C., aged 8, of Fallsbrook Road, Streatham. Notified
on the 7th April. No history of infection could be
ascertained.
(82.) J. B., aged 64, of Church Row, Wandsworth. Notified
on the 7th April. Patient was a general labourer. He
came from Finsbury where a case of Small-pox had
occurred.
(83.) F. P., aged 12, of St. Alphonsus Road, Clapham. Notified
on the 7th April. No history of infection could be
ascertained.
(84.^ W. T., aged 45, of Sellincourt Road, Tooting. Notified
on the 7th April. This man was working at Southwold,
in Suffolk, and came home on the Saturday previous
with the rash well out on him. He left Southwold
by the 1 p.m. train, and there were several other
passengers in the same compartment. He was seen by
two Doctors in Southwold who did not think it was
infectious. He' was working in Southwold on the
critical days.
(85.) R. S., aged 41, of Haselhurst Road, Balham. Notified
on the 7th April. Patient was at work at the Avenue
Theatre on critical days, and was probably infected at
work.
(86.) E. W., aged 19, of Beechcroft Road, Wandsworth.
Notified on the 7th April. No history of infection
could be ascertained.