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.
(97.) A. M., aged 27, of Wandsworth Infirmary. Notified on
the 18th April. Patient was taken to the Infirmary
from Balham (Nightingale Lane) and developed Smallpox
after admission.
(98.) B. D., aged 27, of Wandsworth Infirmary. Notified on
the 17th April. Entered Infirmary on the 26th
February, and developed Small-pox there.
(99.) B. C., aged 59, of Westbury Street, Clapham. Notified
on the 21st April. Patient was a plasterer's labourer,
employed in Kensington, and was probably infected at
work.
(100.) G. S., aged 23, of Killyon Road, Clapham. Notified
on the 22nd April. Patient, was infected by her husband,
an unrecognised case. This case was notified
as Chicken-pox and was seen by Doctor M. R., who pronounced
it to be Srnall-pox. The husband fell ill on
the 26th March, was attended by a medical man who
thought it was Influenza. He returned to work for one
day, on the 7th April, but came home feeling ill and
did not return until the 14th April.
(101.) E. S., aged 4, of Haselhurst Road, Balham. Notified
on the 22nd April as Chicken-pox. Patient was
infected by his father, who was removed to Hospital
suffering from Small-pox on the 7th April. Unvaccinated.
(102.) J. K, aged 47, of Earlsfield Road, Wandsworth. Notified
on the 23rd April. No history of infection could
be ascertained.
(103.) D. L., aged 24, of Gleneagle Road, Streatham. Notified
on the 25th April. Not Small-pox.
(104) G. B., aged 27, of Rectory Grove, Clapham. Notified
on the 29th April. No history of infection could be
ascertained.
(105.) W. W„ aged 49, of Sistova Road, Balham. Notified on
the 30th April. Infected by J. S., who was removed