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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.
to Hospital from the same address on the 16th April,
and who died in Hospital. W. refused to be re-vaccinated.
Fatal.
(106.) A. P., aged 56, of Smallwood Road, Balham. Notified
on the 8th May. Patient was a carpenter, and was
employed on the New Small-pox Hospital, Dartford,
till the 18th April, and on the 22nd April he went to
work in Mitcham. A son was also working at the
Small-pox Hospital, Dartford, and was taken ill there
on the 16th April, he probably infected father and
brother, next case.
(107.) J. P., aged 12, of Smallwood Road, Balham. Notified
on the 8th May. Infected by brother, an unrecognised
case. Son of the above.
(108.) A. H. aged 26, of Geddes Road, Wandsworth. Notified
on the 14th May. Patient was infected by her
husband, an unrecognised case. This man was a working
jeweller, employed at Tottenham Court Road. He
came home from work on the 23rd April and was
attended by a doctor, who said he was suffering from
Influenza.
(109.) A. J., aged 32, of Ballantine Street, Wandsworth. Notified
on the 21st May. Not Small-pox.
(110.) N. W., aged 5, of Smallwood Road, Balham. Notified
on the 26th May. Not Small-pox.
(ill.) H. M., aged 18, of Tooting Grove. Notified on the
26th May. Patient was a salesman at a boot shop in
Tooting, the manager of which had been ill with what
was supposed to be Influenza, but was discovered to be
Small-pox, and there is no doubt that he infected M.
(112.) C. C., aged 16, of Tooting Grove. Notified on the 30th
May. Patient was a servant, employed at Peckham,
and came home to Tooting on the 29th May with the
rash well developed.
(113.) O. G., aged 2½, of Blackshaw Road, Tooting. Not
Small-pox.