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a. Of the foregoing 10 cases of Pulmonary Tuberculosis
or Phthisis and 4 of Erysipelas were norified from the
Asylum or in connection with that institution.
One subsequently withdrawn.
Smallpox.
One case was notified in the District at the beginning
of the year. This is the contact to which reference was
made in my Report for last year, and I now give the history
of the case.
Early in December 1909, I received notice from the
Medical Officer of Health for Tottenham. Dr. Butler Hogan,
that a man, A.S., living in Friern Barnet, had been in
contact with a man, x, residing in Tottenham, who was
suffering from Smallpox.
I interviewed A.S., who was apparently well and most
unwilling to give any information, asserting that his friend
x at Tottenham was not really ill and only had chickenpox.
A.S. and his family shared the house where he lived
with another family, the members of which were suffering
from Influenza and at the time were being attended medically
daily and the opportunity was taken of also keeping
A.S. under strict observation, with the result that the
attack was diagnosed and notified at the earliest possible
moment. A.S. complained of feeling ill on December 31st,
aud was notified on January 4th, the diagnosis being confirmed
next day by Dr. Prior, Medical Officer of Health for
Finchley.
A.S. was a member of a travelling dramatic company
which had been touring in Russia. When at Warsaw
some members of the troup were brought into contact with
another troup at the Cirkus Ciuselli, known as the Flatelini
Brothers. A clown of this latter troup was taken ill
and died shortly after, and was buried on November 15th,
the disease being thought to be "Black Pox."
The troup of which A.S. was a member left Warsaw
and went to Dantzic, where one of their number, W.C.,