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the spread of Smallpox would be an impossibility.
In order to be prepared to some extent to deal with the
emergency should it arise in Leyton, I have addressed a circular
letter to the medical practitioners warning them to be on the look- ,
out for a possible case of Smallpox, offering my services in consultation,
and informing them that fresh Government lymph can
be obtained at the Town Hall.
These suggestions have, I am glad to say, met with approval.
I have on several occasions visited suspicious cases of Chickenpox,
which, while presenting points of resemblance to modified
cases of Smallpox, I was able to satisfy myself were not cases of
the latter disease.
Fresh weekly supplies of lymph obtained free of expense
from the Local Government Board are on hand in my office, and
the doctors are availing themselves of this privilege.
As the Public Health staff will be required in their various
capacities to come more or less intimately into contact with
any case of Smallpox should one arise, I have taken the precaution
to vaccinate all my staff, including, the nurses and other employees
at the hospital.
VACCINATION RETURNS.