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Fifty of these cases were removed to the Isolation Hospital and
97 cases of Small Pox to the Small Pox Hospital.
The following is a succinct account of the different infectious
diseases requiring action by your sanitary officials during the year.
My practice is to request the Sanitary Inspector to visit each house as
soon as I receive notification of the existence of infectious disease
there, visiting myself subsequently all those cases which I consider
require my doing so.
Small-Pox.—This disease was very prevalent and caused a very
considerable increase to the work of your sanitary officials. Every
case was visited as soon as possible, either by the Sanitary Inspector
or myself, after notification of the disease was received by me, and
all cases (with one exception) were removed as speedily as possible
to the Small-pox hospital at Dagenham. The contacts were cautioned
to keep themselves isolated for a period of 10 days or a fortnight,
the Sanitary Inspector, as far as possible, seeing that this was done,
and they were maintained in most instances by the Council during
their period of quarantine. The houses, &c., were disinfected as
soon as the patient was removed, bedding, &c., which could not be
disinfected and washed were burnt and replaced by the Council.
Re-vaccination of all unprotected inmates of all infected houses
was done in by far the larger number of instances, always in fact,
except in a few cases where the refusal of persons to be re-vaccinated