[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch] page 75

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 clays 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.
1896	15	10 „	6 „	Scar on one of his fingers.	1 M	Primary case, a male, may possibly have had a sore finger on his return from hospital.
"	16	11 „	5 „		1 F	Primary case, a female, was according to mother free from any lesion on her return.
"	17	7 „	7 „	Rhinorrhoea (nasal discharge)	2 F	Primary case, a male, was stated to have had a rough skin and to have been peeling on return. I observed nothing of this, but the child had chickenpox which developed after return from hospital.
1897	18	7½ „	7 „		1 F	Primary case a male.
"	19	12 „	7 „		1 F	Primary case, a male, free from spots, sores or scaling. Two sisters of patient (secondary case) were attending school but no history of illness.
"	20	9 „	3 „		1 M	Primary case a female. Showed nothing to suggest her being infectious.
"	21	8 „	17 „	Tonsils enlarged	1F&1M	Primary case a female. Mother stated patient returning has always had large tonsils. Secondary cases attending school when taken ill. There were two other cases at school about same time. Primary case slept by herself for first week after her return.
"	22	9 „	2 „	Throat presented suspicious appearance	1 F	Primary case, a female.