Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Romford]
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No. | Date. | Loeality. | Disease. | Source of Disease. Action taken. | Result. |
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1 | Jan. 5 | Market Place | Smallpox | One case. Contracted at Grays. Removed to Dagenham Smallpox Hospital. Inmates of house re.vaccinated Premises, bedding, &c., disinfected. | No further case, |
2 | ,, 5 | High Street | Smallpox | This patient was a servant in one of the inns, and used to serve in the bar, a woman from an infectious house was known to have gone into this inn. the case was removed to Hospital, and the room she occupied disinfected, the bedding being burnt. | No other case. |
3 | „ 6 | Mawney Road . | Smallpox | A mild case. Clergyman who had baptized a child suffering with this disease. Isolated at home, being an extremely mild case, there being only half-a-dozen pustules over the whole body. House disinfected and bedding burnt. | No other case. |
4 | Marks Road | Smallpox | One case. A relation of a family in Poplar Street, infected in December. Removed. Inmates re-vaccinated. Contact kept secluded and under observation for ten aays. | No further case. | |
5 | „ 9 | Marks Road | Smallpox | One case. Origin obscure. Same precaution as in No. 4. | No further ease. |
6 | „ 10 | North Street | Smallpox | One case. A man engaged in the burial of smallpox cases. Removed. | See No. 5. |
7. | » 10 | Collier Row | Smallpox | One case. Presumably arising from infection introduced by the woman mentioned in No. 2. Removed. | No other case. |