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Additional Medical Examination.—The results of additional medical examinations
of cases in St. Pancras presenting pocks, rashes, or symptoms
suggestive of small-pox or allied diseases, are set out in the following Table,
which speaks for itself.

GROUPS OF CASES OF SMALLPOX.
As illustrations of the exceedingly infectious nature of small-pox some
groups of a typical nature may be mentioned. These embrace (1) a street
group, (2) a common lodging-house group, (3) a cubicle lodging-house group,
(4) a family group, (5) a public house group, and (6) a hospital group.
(1) The T— Street Group.—The first case of small-pox was an unrecognised
case occurring in a sorter of dirty linen who was treated at home for measles
and chickenpox, and infected her two sisters who infected L— B—, a female,
aged two years and four months in the next house, who was certified on the
14th of August. The child sickened on August 6th and was regarded as
suffering from chickenpox, she died on August 11th, but it was not known to
the Public Health Department until the 14th that the child had died of smallpox,
and as soon as the certificate was received the body was removed to the
Infectious Mortuary.
In the mean time the patient had been visited by her relatives and friends,
A— A—, her sister-in-law of 41 S— Street, became infected and 13 other
cases occurred in T— Street making a total of 16. Two other cases occurred
at 41 S— Street, and a child living in G— Street contracted the disease while
playing with other children in T— Street, while A— H— living at K— Street
was removed to hospital after having visited friends in T— Street.
Two officers of the Borough Council became infected.