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these re-vaccinations in every case, except in another lad, in
whom it failed, not only then, but also after a second operation
on January 30th. This lad provided the second case, the rash
making its appearance on February 7th, exactly 14 days after
the date of his last contact with the previous patient. He
was removed to Hospital on the 7th. Neither of these patients
had undergone vaccination since infancy.
The third case occurred at the end of March, in another
part of the District, namely, at Bandon Hill, in the Parish of
Beddington. The patient first complained of illness on March
29th, the rash made its appearance on the 31st, and he was
safely removed in the Council's ambulance on April 2nd, to the
new Small-pox Hospital at South Mimms, Barnet, a distance of
about 35 miles. The three remaining members of this household
were successfully re-vaccinated on April 1st, neither they
nor the patient having been vaccinated since infancy. No
further case occurred.
The origin of this case was traced. The patient was
employed at a private disinfecting station at Hackbridge,
Wallington, and on March 17th he was required to disinfect
a quantity of clothing and bedding, which he had removed on
that day from a house at Burgh Heath, in a neighbouring
Rural District, and which had been used by a patient suffering
from small-pox.
"Fever."—This term includes enteric or typhoid, continued,
and other forms of ill-defined fever. Thirteen attacks,
all of them cases of enteric, were notified daring the year, this
number being somewhat less than the average, which for the
previous 7 years had been 15 annually.
The first case was reported in February in a young girl
at a house in Smithambottom, Coulsdon, and its true nature
was not ascertained until after death, which occurred at the