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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
(11). J. P., aged 25, of Selkirk Road, Streatham. Notified on
the 27th June. Patient was a bricklayer and was employed
on a Board School at Tooting, but had only worked there
for one week. No definite history of infection could be
ascertained. On the day of presumed infection he was
at work at a Builders and Contractors at Vauxhall, Lambeth.
(12). A. B., aged 29, of Bucharest Road, Wandsworth. Notified
on the 6th July. Patient was a school teacher at a school
in Buckingham Palace Road, and was in the habit of travelling
by tram from Clapham Junction every day. No definite
history of infection could be ascertained.
(13). T. J., aged 34, of Fontenoy Road, Streatham. Notified on
the 9th July. Patient was a buyer for a firm of drapers in
the West End. No definite history of infection could be
ascertained.
(14). H. J., aged 3, of St. Alphonsus Road, Clapham. Notified
on the 9th July. On the 9th July I received a message from
Dr. Hunter, of Clapham, that he had been attending two
suspicious cases of Small-pox in St. Alphonsus Road. On
visiting the premises the same evening I found that these
cases were Small-pox. The children had never been vaccinated,
and on further inquiry I elicited the fact that the
father, 16 days before, had suffered from headache and
backache, and also had had some spots on his face, body,
and arms. On examination of the father I came to the
conclusion that he had suffered from a mild attack of
Small-pox and that he had infected the unvaccinated
children. The father was a butcher by trade and had only
been away from work one day; during the whole period
the eruption was out he had been attending to his usual
duties. I examined him carefully and came to the conclusion
that he was practically free from infection, but as a
precautionary measure I ordered him to stay in one room
so that I could keep him under observation two or three
days longer. All the occupants of the house, but one, were
re-vaccinated on the evening of the 9th. A younger
brother of the father who resided in the same house had a
few spots on his face and he was also kept under