[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch] page 74

Shoreditch 1904

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]

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Year.	No. of case.	Length of time the primary (infecting) case was detained in hospital.	Number of days which elapsed between the date the primary (infecting) case returned home and the date the secondary (infected) case fell ill.	Lesions observed in primary case when same returned from hospital.	Number of cases resulting presumably from primary case, so far as could be traced.	REMARKS.
1895	7	10 „	14 „	Rhinorrhoea (nasal discharge)	1 f	Primary case a male. Stated to have been ailing and poorly on return. Secondary case attending school when attacked.
77	8	7 „	6 „	Rhinorrhoea— (nasal discharge) Sore nostrils	1 f	Primary case a female.
7 7	9	8 „	14 „	Tonsils enlarged and congested	1 M	Primary case, a female, was kept by herself for a week after her arrival home. Secondary case attending school.
7 7	10	11 ,,	7 „	Tonsils enlarged and ragged looking	1 M	Primary case, a male, slept with secondary case.
,,	11	11 „	3 „		1 f	Primary case, a female; secondary case, attending school at date of attack. Mother states that primary case on return was free from spot or blemish.
1896	12	8 „	5 „		1 M	Primary case, a female, was ill at home for a fortnight before removal to hospital. Mother states that when primary case returned home she was free from spot or blemish.
7 7	13	9	6 „		1M&1F	Primary case, a male on return home was according to mother quite well.
77	14	13 „	4 „		2 M	Primary case, a female, wore on her return from hospital a dress which had only been worn two or three times. She was wearing it when taken ill and it was put away and escaped disinfection. The primary case was stated to have been quite well on return.