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GLANDERS.
A warehouseman residing within the Borough of Stepney was admitted to
the London Hospital on the 26th April, supposed to be suffering from Pleurisy,
and afterwards from Pyæmia. Bacteriological examination proved that the
disease was Glanders.
As the man had been working up to the date of admission to hospital at a
warehouse in the City, the facts were notified to your Medical Officer of Health.
The Commissioner of Police and the City Veterinary Inspector were at once
informed, and the horses of the carmen and others calling at the premises in
question inspected, but no evidence could be obtained connecting the case with
the City of London.
PLAGUE NOTIFICATIONS.
On the 30th July the Medical Officer of Health for the Port of London
reported that the effects of a seaman who had died of Bubonic Fever on
board the s.s. "Starling "had been landed at Brewer's Quay. These were at
once removed, disinfected, and returned, and a certificate to that effect
forwarded to the Mercantile Marine Office.
On the 14th August the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor forwarded the
original and a translation of a telegram received that morning from the Vienna
Health Authorities, stating that three persons from a plague-infected district
arriving at that city were on their way to this country, via Ostend, and that
on arrival they would stay at a certain club in London. As the address given,
however, could not be identified with any place in the City, the particulars
were forwarded to the Medical Officer of Health of the metropolitan district in
which the majority of small clubs used by foreigners are situated.
Subsequent inquiries showed that these persons probably went to an hotel
in the City of Westminster, and left there on the morning of the 17th August
for an unknown destination.
REMOVAL OF UNCERTIFIED PERSONS IN COMPANY WITH
CERTIFIED SMALL-POX CASES.
The Metropolitan Asylums Board wrote to draw attention to the fact that
it occasionally happens that the healthy mother of a suckling infant who is
certified to be suffering from Small-pox is removed with the infant to South
Wharf and vice versd, and pointing out that the admission to the wharf of
healthy persons is attended with danger of infection, and moreover causes