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This group contained 23 cases consisting of 10 males, 6 females, and 7
children under ten years of age, and extended over a period from August 1st
to September 20th.
(2) The H— Street Common Lodging Home Group.- On November 2nd a
communication was received stating that E— W—had been removed from
Charing Cross Hospital and that he gave an address at a C. L. H. in II— Street;
the source of infection in this case was not discovered, Nine other lodgers in
this house became infected and all the occupants refused re-vaccination. The
barmaid from a neighbouring public house, used by these lodgers, not feeling
well went home to her relatives at Islington from where she was removed.
On November 14th, R— M— of L - Street was attacked, and stated that he
saw the above E — W— in Covent Garden Market and accompanied him to
Charing Cross Hospital.
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A— A— of 0— Crescent was removed to hospital having been out with one
of the lodgers from the infected house.
A— II— of P— W— Crescent was an associate of some of these men and
was in the habit of drinking with them in the above public house ; he fell ill
and was removed to hospital, and so was his wife and also his two children.
This group contained 16 cases, and included 12 males, 3 females and 1 child
under 10, and lasted from November 2nd to December 11th.
(3) The R— H— Cubicle Lodging-house Group.— The II — H— is a
large cubicle lodging-house in K. C. Road which nightly accommodates
six or seven hundred lodgers, and small-pox broke out on three
distinct occasions. The first case occurred on 7th December, 1901; the
infection did not spread. The second occasion was that of a man who was
removed from the Workhouse, who fell ill on the second day after admission;
up to the time of entering the Workhouse he had been a lodger at this house,
but he did not infect any other person. The premises again became infected
on 4th May, 1902. Between this date and 26th June 17 cases occurred
amongst the inmates. The source of infection could not be obtained, as no
definite particulars of the patients could be ascertained, as they were all
removed from public institutions except one, who was removed from his
workplace.
In no case could the occupation or place of occupation of the patient be
obtained. These persons did not seek medical advice when feeling unwell; it
was not until the rashes appeared and the nature of the cases could no longer
be concealed that medical treatment was sought under pressure from the
superintendent of the house. There was only one member of the staff of the
establishment who refused revaccination; he contracted the disease and died
before removal to hospital. A young woman living in the same house as the
last patient also contracted the infection. The owners ultimately decided to
enforce vaccination and revaccination of the lodgers, and those that refused
to undergo the operation were not admitted to the house. When this was
done small-pox disappeared from the premises. Altogether 17 males and
1 female were attacked in this group.
(4) The I)— W— Family Group.—Two members of this family residing at
E— Street were certified as suffering from small-pox on 15th November, and