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SMALL-POX.
In the early part of the year an outbreak of Small-pox occurred.
The first known case in the outbreak was that of a young girl who became
an inmate of the Mile End Infirmary on the 5th February, and was removed,
with six other patients, to the Metropolitan Asylum Board's Small-pox Hospital
on the '21st February, 1911.
For a little over seven months previous to the latter date no case of Small-pox
had occurred in London. Of the seven cases referred to above five were inpatients
at that Infirmary, one was a scrubber employed there, and the seventh
was a sister of the first case and living in Mile End. On the 22nd February
four, and on the 23rd fourteen, patients were removed from the Infirmary or
from houses in contiguous districts, and from that date onward until the
middle of May cases continued to arise from day to day.
In all 70 cases were received, 33 from the district of Mile End (28 of these
from the Infirmary where the first cases arose), 24 from eight other districts
of London, and 13 from beyond the Metropolitan area.
No cases occurred in St. Pancras.
A11 outline of the organisation ready to meet Small-pox was given in last
year's Annual Report.
CHICKEN-POX.
On account of the outbreak of Small-pox in the Borough of Stepney in
February, the London County Council resolved, on March 14th, 1911, to
make an Order requiring the notification of Chicken-pox to be compulsory for
a period of three months, dating from the 22nd March, 1911.