[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch] page 77

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.
1899	31	15 „	20 „	Rhinorrhoea (Discharge from nose)	1 F	Primary case a female. Mother warned by M.A.B authorities not to allow her too intimate relation with the rest of the children. Secondary case attending school up to onset of symptons.
"	32	12 „	4 „		1 F	Primary case a female. I examined primary case but could find no evidence of discharges, &c. Patient appeared quite well.
"	33	10 „	5	Rhinorrhcea— Skin rough	1 M	Primary case a male. Mother's statement to sanitary inspector as to rhinornfea and rough skin.
1900	34	15 „	7 „		1 F	Primary case, a female— Mother states she was peeling between toes when she came home. Vaseline used. Allowed to sleep with secondary case five days after return. I saw no sign of desquamation.
1901	35	7 „	4 „	Rhinorrhoea (Nasal discharge)	1 M	Primary case, a male.
"	36	11 „	7 „	Tonsils enlarged, also glands at angles of jaws.	3 M & 1 F	Primary case, a male— Mothers statement as to lesions observed. Secondary cases may have resulted directly from primary case or the infection may have been passed on from one to the other.
"	37	7 „	9 „	Rhinorrhoea (Nasal discharge)	1 F	Primary case a female