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City of London 1902
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London, City of ]
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VACCINATION AND RE-VACCINATION.
| 28,429 | By public vaccinators, excluding primary infant vaccinations. |
| 16,273 | By private practitioners. |
| 107 | By medical men engaged by the Corporation. |
| 44,809 |
CASE MORTALITY.
| Mortality amongst all cases | 21.6 per cent. |
| ,, „ those vaccinated in infancy only | 15.0 „ „ |
| „ ,, unvaccinated cases | 33.3 „ „ |
Experience of former outbreaks of Small-pox having shown that a
recrudescence of the epidemic might be reasonably expected to occur in the
winter, a further appeal advocating re-vaccination was left at the latter end
of the year at every place of business in the City.
This has resulted in an additional number of persons being protected, but
the figures at present are incomplete.
ANTHRAX.
On the 2nd August, a notification was received from the Medical Inspector
of Factories that an inmate of Guy's Hospital, who had been employed at a
fruit brokers in Lower Thames Street, was suffering from Anthrax.
It was found upon enquiry that this man was a casual labourer employed
by the Orange Porters' Society, and had been recently occupied in the
carriage of packages of fruit from a warehouse to vans in the above-mentioned
street, and was one of about 30 men so employed.
In pursuit of his investigations, an Inspector visited the patient in Guy's Hospital on Saturday, the 2nd August, and collected the following information : —
| 28 years. | |
| 18, Bell Court, Bermondsey. | |
"I called at Guy's Hospital to-day, about 1.30 p.m., and obtained permission
"from House Surgeon A. C. H. Grey to see patient.
"The patient states he was sick, with pains in the stomach, on Wednesday,
"23rd July, 1902, and Thursday, 24th July, 1902, and did not go to work on
"those days. I pointed out to him that the foreman said he was at work on